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35 B o o k s h e l f 2 Le t t e r s t o t h e 22 Ga r e t h Wi l l i a m s ’ Featured: Steven L. Cantor ’73 Ed i t o r o r e r i n c i p l e s discusses green roofs and C P their practical and aesthetic 3 Wi t h i n t h e Fa m i l y The Violin Family Professor of Classics Gareth purposes in Green Roofs in 4 r o u n d t h e u a d s Landscape Design. A Q Williams breathes life into the Core’s ancient texts, 4 Reunion and Dean’s making them lively and relevant to students. 37 O b i t u a r i e s Day 2010 By Ethan Rouen ’04J 38 Arnold Beichman ’34 5 Benjamin Jealous ’94 To Speak at Class Day 41 C l a s s No t e s 7 Columbians Win A l u m n i Upd a t e s Prestigious Scholarships Features 10 58 Kenny Greenberg ’72 5 Minutes with … Stefan Andriopoulos 68 Steve Heroux ’91 11 Alumni in the News Jo h n Ja y Di n n e r Ho n o r s Fi v e Al u m n i 75 Nick Cain ’06 18 12 Student Spotlight: The College celebrated five alumni for their distin- 80 A l u m n i Co r n e r Chan ’12 and guished professional achievements at a black-tie The first Columbia alumnus Hollarsmith ’12 14 dinner in midtown in March. to run a sub–four-minute mile Roar Lion Roar 15 Campus News By Lisa Palladino; photos by Eileen Barroso helps a student achieve that feat, and shares the elation. 16 Edward Koren ’57 By Liam Boylan-Pett ’08 Art Exhibit 26 Wa t c h i n g t h e Wa t c h d o g s a t Th e Ne w Yo r k Ti m e s Web Exclusives at www.college.columbia.edu/cct Times public editor Clark Hoyt ’64 takes on readers’ complaints and responds thoughtfully and with an Wi l l i a m s ’ Co r e Pr i n c i p l e s Watch excerpts from an interview with Professor Gareth Williams. infusion of facts. By David McKay Wilson Ko r e n ’s Bi g Sh o w Edward Koren ’57 and curators David Rosand ’59, ’65 GSAS and Diane Fane ’93 GSAS discuss aspects of the exhibit of Koren’s work, 30 Co l u m b i a Fo r u m on display now at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. Nobel Laureate and University Professor Joseph E. Fo u r Mi n u t e s , On e Mi l e Stiglitz argues in his new book, Freefall: America, Free Watch Kyle Merber ’12 become the first person wearing Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, that GDP Columbia blue to run a mile in under four minutes. is not the right way to assess standard of living. Fi v e Mo r e Mi n u t e s See part of CCT’s discussion with Germanic Languages Professor Stefan Andriopoulos.

COVER: DAVID WENTWORTH columbia college today Letters to the Editor

Professor Karl Kroeber nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/temp- Volume 37 Number 5 I and no doubt countless other Columbia analysis-2009.html) points out that we are May/June 2010 College alumni read with sadness the news currently in a deep solar minimum, with a Editor and publisher of Professor Karl Kroeber’s death in the corresponding decrease in the amount of Alex Sachare ’71 energy Earth gets from the sun, but global Managing Editor March/April issue [“Around the Quads”]. Lisa Palladino Over the years, when people have asked warming continues. associate editor me, “Who was your favorite professor at While the Earth has experienced warm Ethan Rouen ’04J Columbia?” I have immediately replied, periods, those were before the invention Associate Director, Advertising “Karl Kroeber, Romantic poetry.” CCT’s of the modern city. During both the Ro- Taren Cowan man and medieval warm periods, the vast forum editor description of him as a “demanding but Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard compassionate professor who relentlessly majority of the human population could Contributing writer challenged his students” is apt, but I would walk to where their food was grown. To- Shira Boss-Bicak ’93, ’97J, ’98 SIPA add that he was a gentle, kindly man, eru- day, we consider 500 miles “local” for food Editorial Assistants dite, regal but not overbearing, and oh-so- production purposes. I wonder just how Grace Laidlaw ’11 healthy the American economy will be if Julie Poole ’11 GS well-versed in and passionate about his Jesse Thiessen ’11 Arts field. He wanted the Romantic poets and the grain belt (and the Texas desert south Design Consultant his students to be the stars of the class of it) moves north. Depending on imports Jean-Claude Suarès rather than himself, but it was sheer magic for both energy and food has not histori- art director cally been a recipe for economic and politi- Gates Sisters Studio when he read aloud the poetry of Brown- cal stability. webmaster ing and Tennyson, holding our small class Thomas MacLean enthralled. I would think that the greatest Jennifer Broekman ’93 Contributing Photographers reward of teaching is knowing that one Fa i r La w n , N.J. Eileen Barroso David Wentworth had a relatively brief interaction with one’s Daniella Zalcman ’09 students, but gave them a gift for a lifetime; Despite my great affection for my classmate some 38 years later, this is how I remember Fred DeVries ’49, ’50E, ’51E, I am distressed Published six times a year by the this great professor. by his attempt in a recent letter to CCT to Columbia College Office of debunk the notion of global warming. I Alumni Affairs and Development. Joshua J. Wiener ’75 dean of alumni affairs Ja c k s o n , Mi s s . hate to say this, but reading it reminded me and development of one of my favorite cartoons, published Derek A. Wittner ’65 Going Green in Punch many years ago, that shows a liv- For alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends of Columbia College, founded in 1754, In the March/April “Letters to the Edi- ing room with a man kneeling in front of the undergraduate liberal arts college of tor,” Fred DeVries ’49, ’50E, ’51E complains its bookshelves and holding an open book, Columbia University in the City of New York. while a woman (apparently his wife) sitting Address all correspondence to: about the focus on carbon emissions and Columbia College Today global climate change. I’m curious about his nearby and knitting under a floor lamp is Columbia Alumni Center quoted as saying, “Surely you don’t expect 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 sources. Certainly his claim about the Arc- New York, NY 10025 tic sea ice seems dubious, given the maps mere facts to sway my opinion!” 212-851-7852 With the greatest respect, may I suggest E-mail (editorial): [email protected]; and graphs available from Cryosphere (advertising): [email protected] Today (arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere). that Mr. DeVries consider the facts and ar- www.college.columbia.edu/cct I’m baffled by his claim that there’s a limit guments set forth by James Hansen, head ISSN 0572-7820 on the greenhouse effect. While carbon di- of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect official oxide may become inefficient at retaining Studies and an adjunct professor of physics positions of Columbia College heat if the temperature rises too much (and at Columbia, in his recent book, Storms of or Columbia University. I haven’t done the calculations to show My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Com- © 2010 Columbia College Today All rights reserved. what temperature that might be), other ing Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance molecules with higher vaporization tem- to Save Humanity, reviewed in the Ameri- peratures will absorb heat we’d rather the can Chemical Society’s newsmagazine Earth could shed. Chemical and Engineering News, March 22. Mr. DeVries also claims that the green- Very few educated people, and still fewer house gas concentration was higher than scientifically trained folks, believe global current levels when the Pennsylvania coal warming to be anything other than a truly fields formed, but provides no source for serious threat that must be dealt with in a CCT welcomes letters from readers about serious fashion. articles in the magazine, but cannot this information. The Stanford Solar Cen- print or personally respond to all letters ter provides a graph showing the run-up Joseph B. Russell ’49, ’52L received. Letters express the views of in three significant greenhouse gasses Ne w Yo r k Ci t y the writers and not CCT, the College or the University. Please keep letters to 250 (http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on- words or fewer. All letters are subject to earth/glob-warm.html), all of which show I just read the latest CCT (March/April). editing for space and clarity. Please direct sharp changes in slope around the indus- It is very distressing that you published, letters for publication “t o t h e e d i t o r .” trial revolution. A related source (www. (Continued on page 78)

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W i t h i n t h e Fa m i l y Hoops Hopes: Coaching at Columbia

oe Jones’ decision to resign as men’s he does best, which is demands of Division I head basketball coach at Columbia recruiting and coaching basketball. Not only is to become an assistant under Steve defense, even though it Columbia competing JDonahue at Boston College provides meant no longer being a with the seven other a chance to reflect on the nature of head coach. Ivies for these select coaching and the Columbia program. Should Jones’ tenure prospects, but also with Jones has been there, done that when on Morningside Heights top academic schools it comes to being an assistant to an on- be judged a success or a like Duke, Stanford and the-rise young head coach in a major failure? His teams never others that can offer conference. Prior to coming to Colum- did better than .500 in the athletic scholarships bia, he was Jay Wright’s top assistant at Ivy League and posted and have much higher Villanova of the Big East Conference. only one winning season athletic profiles. So why, after running his own show overall, so by that stan- That does not mean for seven years, would Jones choose to dard his success was lim- the job is hopeless. go back to being an assistant, this time ited. But he did bring a Between a Columbia to Donahue, the former Cornell coach, sagging program back to Joe Jones led Columbia to the degree and all that in the Atlantic Coast Conference? And respectability, so I agree top half of the Ivy League in New York City has to what, if anything, does it say about the with Athletics Director three of the last four years. offer, Jones’ successor PHOTO: GENE BOYARS Columbia program? M. Dianne Murphy, who has much to offer to Keep two things in mind. First, pointed out when Jones’ recruits. And the beauty coaches tend to be vagabonds, moving resignation was announced, “Our men’s of basketball is you don’t need a bevy from job to job. Of the remaining Ivy basketball program is in much better of players to turn a program around; head coaches following Donahue’s de- shape now than when he first arrived, Donahue endured six losing seasons parture, only one had been in the posi- and for that we are very thankful.” at Cornell before catching lightning in tion longer than Jones — his brother Personable and energetic, Jones was a bottle with the convergence of an all- James, who just completed his 11th a campus presence who was well-liked around star (Wittman), a floor general season at Yale. Second, sports programs by his players and worked for their (Dale) and a 7-foot center (Foote). are never static. A program that is not well-being on and off the court. He I’m reminded of the Lions of my moving forward, however that is mea- made his team a part of campus life college years, when Brooklyn’s Jim sured by the powers that be, is consid- and elevated its place in alumni con- McMillian ’70 turned down UCLA to ered to be sliding backward. sciousness. These factors all go into stay in the city and blossomed into an Columbia was 0–14 in the Ivy League how a coach, especially an Ivy League All-American, 7-footer Dave Newmark and 2–25 overall the year before Jones coach, should be measured. ’69 was a pivot presence and Heyward arrived. It showed immediate improve- Winning in the Ivy League, and Dotson ’70, ’76L provided backcourt ment with Jones’ first recruiting class, winning consistently, is not easy. That’s leadership and scoring. That team won and by the time those players were why Donahue left Ithaca after a 13–1 the Holiday Festival at Madison Square seniors in 2006–07, the Lions were 7–7 Ivy season and a 29–5 mark overall, Garden when the tourney really meant in Ivy play (fourth in the league) and including a pair of NCAA tournament something, was ranked in the nation’s 16–12 overall. Clearly, the program was wins that garnered national attention. top 10, won the 1968 Ivy championship moving forward. But after two more 7–7 His Cornell team was loaded with in a one-game playoff against Princeton Ivy seasons, Columbia dipped to 5–9 seniors, including stars Ryan Wittman, and provided a positive rallying point this year, and has been on the south side Jeff Foote and Louis Dale, so Donahue at a time when campus unrest was of .500 overall in each of the last three realized this was his time to cash in about to bubble over. years. At a time when Penn had faded and not risk being in the position of Such success can happen again. from Ivy dominance and Princeton had overseeing a program that had passed Cornell had won exactly one Ivy cham- slumped as well (before rebounding last its peak. pionship in half a century before domi- winter), Columbia had watched Cornell The key to success in the Ivies, like nating the league the last three years. leapfrog it to the top and Harvard surge any other league, is recruiting. But With the right coach and commitment, past it last season as well. It’s under- recruiting for Columbia, or any Ivy Columbia can do the same. standable if Jones felt he had taken Co- school, is challenging because of the lumbia back to a certain level and that it shallow pool of prospects who are was time to move on to a higher-profile capable of, and willing to, combine a program where he could focus on what rigorous academic program with the

may/june 2010 3 columbia college today Around the Quads Reunion June 3–6 Features New Events; Dean’s Day To Be Held on June 5

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lumni Reunion Weekend flight simulation, food and limited open for class years ending in 0 bar. Tickets will be available for $25 at and 5 will take place Thurs- the door. day, June 3–Sunday, June 6. Starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, at- Dean’s Day, which is open tendees with children ages 3–12 may Ato all alumni and parents, will be held sign them up for Saturday’s all-day during the same weekend, on Saturday, supervised Camp Columbia for Kids. June 5. Also on Saturday morning, all alumni, Reunion events include class-specific including Dean’s Day participants, may lunches, dinners, cocktail parties/recep- sign up for the Dean’s Continental Break- tions, discussion panels and tours. All- fast in Alfred Lerner Hall. Dean Michele class events include the always-popular Reunion is the time to catch up with old Moody-Adams will give an update on wine tasting and Starlight Reception on friends and make new ones. the College. Saturday evening as well as learning op- After breakfast, events continue for all portunities, campus tours, and dance and bath may participate in a Tri-College alumni with Public Intellectual Lectures, Broadway performances. (College, SEAS, Barnard) Shabbat Service and class-specific lunches or group class Dean’s Day, one of the College’s most and Dinner. barbecues. After lunch, choose from popular events, features lectures by some New this year for young alumni more learning opportunities, attend the of Columbia’s most prominent faculty on (Classes 2000–2010) is a party on Friday annual Admissions Presentation/Alum- a variety of topics. night aboard the recently restored Intrep- ni Representative Committee reception The Class of 1960 starts Alumni Re- id. Join SEAS, Barnard and GS friends for members and those who wish to join union Weekend early with a special recep- and classmates, and revive those Intrepid ARC or attend a Center for Career Edu- tion on Wednesday, June 2. The weekend parties of old! There will be dancing, cation presentation. officially kicks off on Thursday, Also new this year is a Glee June 3, with class-specific Club alumni gathering, which events such as cocktail parties/ will include two rehearsals receptions and tours, as well (Friday and Saturday) and as a choice of the American a performance on Saturday. Ballet Theater, New York Phil- Building on the success of last harmonic or Broadway shows. year’s affinity group gather- These performances are open ings, alumni from WKCR, to all reunion attendees, but Spectator, Marching Band and tickets must be purchased in the Glee Club and other sing- advance, as seating is limited. ing groups also will gather. Friday morning and after- All alumni, not just those cel- noon feature campus tours, ebrating reunion, are welcome “Back on Campus” learning at these Saturday afternoon opportunities and an “Es- receptions. Also on Saturday sentials of Estate Planning” afternoon, all alumni are in- breakfast that is open to all. vited to a tour of cartoonist That evening, join classmates Edward Koren ’57’s exhibit at class-specific cocktail par- “The Capricious Line” in the ties/receptions and dinners. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Those who observe the Sab- There are plenty of family-friendly activities throughout the weekend. Gallery (see page 16).

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Jealous To Address Class of 2010 at Class Day

enjamin Jealous ’94, president of the National Association for the BAdvancement of Colored People, will address the Class of 2010 at Class Day, Monday, May 17, on South Lawn. Jealous, a lifelong civil and human rights activist, has been a tireless and vocal advocate for his constituents since Alumni carry the Class of 1964 banner in last taking over the NAACP in 2008. In his year’s Alumni Parade of Classes. brief tenure, he has seen what many con- Photo: Ethan Rouen ’04J sider historic victories for minorities in Alumni enjoy the Saturday wine tasting on Low Steps. the United States, including the election carrying their class year banners in the PHOTOS: EILEEN BARROSO of a black president, Barack Obama ’83, processional that also includes graduat- and the recent passages of a sweeping ing students, faculty and administrators. Reunion classes will continue the cele- healthcare reform bill and a bill to over- This parade underscores the transition the bration on Saturday evening with the all- haul student loans. graduates will be making from students to class wine tasting, elegant class-specific In 2009, Jealous received a John Jay alumni, and emphasizes that their Colum- dinners and the all-class Starlight Recep- Award for distinguished professional bia connection is lifelong. tion. The weekend wraps up on Sunday achievement and was the fea- Alumni marching in the morning with a bagel, cream cheese and tured speaker at his class’ 15th parade are invited to a cham- lox brunch. reunion dinner. He was profiled pagne breakfast in John Jay To register for reunion and learn more, in the March/April 2009 issue Dining Hall that begins at 8:30 go to http://reunion.college.columbia.edu. of Columbia College Today: www. a.m. The parade is scheduled To register for Dean’s Day and select lec- college.columbia.edu/cct/mar to begin at 9:45 a.m. Alumni in- tures, go to www.college.columbia.edu/ _apr09. terested in participating should deansday. Alumni from all classes have contact Stella Miele-Zanedis, For more information or assistance with a chance to participate in Class assistant director of alumni af- either event, please contact the Alumni Of- Day festivities by marching in Benjamin Jealous ’94 fairs: 212-851-7846 or mf2413@ fice: 212-851-7488 or 866-CCALUMNI. the Alumni Parade of Classes, Photo: Eileen Barroso columbia.edu. around the quads columbia college today

In Lumine Tuo Her Life, Her Poetry, Her Garden n LENFEST AWARDS: Seven faculty members were honored on February 16 as recipients of this year’s Distinguished Columbia Faculty Awards, which were established in 2005 by University Trustee Gerry Lenfest ’58L to make sure faculty members are recognized and rewarded for attributes beyond their scholarship and re- search. “Columbia has a tradition of great teachers, and although it’s important how many books they publish, what’s more important is the connections they establish with their students,” Lenfest said. This year’s winners were Stefan Andri- opoulos, associate professor of Germanic languages and literature (see “5 Minutes with … ”, page 10); Harmen Bussemaker, associate professor of biological sciences; Julie Crawford, associate professor of APRIL 30 – JUNE 13 English and comparative literature; Lydia Goehr, professor of philosophy; Steven Support From: BUY TICKETS Goldstein ’76, ’81 GSAS, ’86 GSAS, profes- National Endowment for the Humanities: Because democracy demands wisdom The Kurt Berliner Foundation, New York Council for the Humanities, AT N Y BG.ORG sor of earth and environmental sciences; New York State Council on the Arts Ruben Gonzalez, assistant professor of Any views, fi ndings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. A QUICK 20-MINUTE RIDE chemistry; and David Scott, professor of FROM GRAND CENTRAL anthropology. The seven, who were feted ON at a dinner in Faculty House, will receive an award of $25,000 apiece for three con- secutive years.

n SLOAN FELLOWS: Five Columbia faculty members were named research fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which awards two-year, $50,000 grants to support the work of exceptional young researchers early in their academic ca- reers. The five were among 118 scientists, mathematicians and economists honored. Columbia’s new Sloan Fellows are Navin Kartik, associate professor of eco- nomics; Eitan Grinspun, associate professor of computer science; Tristan Lambert, as- We’ve got you covered. sistant professor of chemistry; Scott Snyder, assistant professor of chemistry; and Tanya Zelevinsky, assistant professor of physics. Through Columbia Alumni Association, life insurance is available in amounts up to $1,000,000, underwritten by New York Life Manage Your Insurance Company (NY, NY 10010). Subscription f you prefer reading CCT online, you Ican help us go green and save money For details about eligibility, coverage amounts, by opting out of the print version. Please rates, exclusions and renewal provisions, please send an e-mail with your name, class year visit alumni.columbia.edu/insurance or call and address, so we can locate you in the database, to [email protected], subject the plan administrator at 800-223-1147 line “Opt-out.” We will continue to notify you by e-mail when each issue is posted online. You may be reinstated to receive the print edition at any time simply by notifying us at the same e-mail address. columbia college today around the quads

from Weston, Mass., plans to become a Columbians Win Prestigious Scholarships climate scientist, creating improved mech- anisms to forecast how climate change af- B y Et h a n Ro u e n ’04J fects water, agriculture and human health. Nelson is double majoring in environ- our students and one alumnus — Bolts is the third Columbia student to mental science and history. The Winston- Shlomo Bolts ’10, Max Horlbeck ’11, win the award, founded by the Bill and Salem, N.C., native hopes to pursue a FHannah Perls ’11, Todd Nelson ’12 Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, in the Ph.D. in environmental public health, and Colin Felsman ’09 — have received last two years. To read about last year’s which will allow him to pursue policy prestigious scholarships that will allow winners, go to www.college.columbia. work at the national level on health risks them to pursue graduate coursework in a edu/cct/mar_apr09. associated with climate change. variety of fields. Horlbeck, a Rabi Scholar from New Felsman received a Luce Foundation Bolts, a political science and sociology York City who is majoring in biochemistry grant, which provides money and train- major from Miami Beach, Fla., has been and computer science, won a Goldwater ing to about 16 young Americans every awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Scholarship, which provides about $7,500 to year so they can work in Asia. A Dulles, beating out more than 800 applicants for students who plan to pursue a Ph.D. in sci- Va., native, Felsman majored in anthro- one of just 29 slots. The award will fund ence, math or engineering. Horlbeck plans pology and political science. Since gradu- Bolts’ work at England’s Cambridge Uni- to apply to a dual M.D./Ph.D. program so ation, he has been working at a non-profit versity for two years. that he can conduct biomedical research to development agency in Harare, Zimba- Bolts plans to pursue an M.Phil. in mod- develop gene-targeted therapies, treat pa- bwe. He will focus on entrepreneurial aid ern society and global transformations. His tients and teach at the university level. and development in Shanghai next year areas of interest include globalization, peace Ilya Belopolski ’12, a double major in at the Non-Profit Incubator. studies and denationalization, and he hopes physics and mathematics and also a Rabi Shira Milikowsky ’07 Arts also received to pursue a career in diplomacy and conflict Scholar, received honorable mention in a Luce grant. resolution, according to Michael Pippenger, the Goldwater Scholarship competition. The Fellowship Office, which assists associate dean of fellowship programs and Perls and Nelson won Udall Scholar- students in applying for awards, assisted study abroad. ships, the most prestigious award given the students through mock interviews, Bolts has been a leader in several cam- to undergraduates in the field of environ- essay assistance and other help. The office pus organizations including the Progressive mental science. It was the first time that also worked with Raphael Graybill ’10, Jewish Alliance and Amnesty International. two Columbia students won the $5,000 who won a Rhodes Scholarship earlier He also co-founded Common Ground, a grant in the same year. this academic year (go to www.college. Jewish-Muslim dialogue program. Perls, an environmental science major columbia.edu/cct/jan_feb10).

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Academics Gather To Honor Belknap

rofessor Emeritus of Slavic Langua- (back row, left to right) Robin Feuer Miller, Columbia; Deborah A. Martinsen, Colum- ges and Director of University Semi- Brandeis; Robert Louis Jackson, emeritus bia; Irina Reyfman, Columbia; Andrew Pnars Robert L. Belknap has instilled Yale; Richard F. Gustafson, emeritus Bar- Durkin, emeritus Indiana; and William a love of Russian literature in several gen- nard and Columbia; Marcia A. Morris, Mills Todd III, Harvard. All but Jackson, erations of students, and many of those he Georgetown; Liza Knapp, Columbia; El- Chances, Popkin and Reyfman earned influenced to become scholars and teach- len Chances, Princeton; and Belknap, and their Ph.D. from Columbia. ers returned to campus on February 12–13 (front row, left to right) Jefferson Gatrall, Ethan Rouen ’04J for a conference in his honor. Participants Montclair State; Rebecca Stanton ’94, Bar- in “A Conference in Honor of Robert L. nard and Columbia; Hilde Hoogenboom, Belknap, Formulations: Teaching Nine- SUNY Albany; Cathy Popkin, Columbia; teenth-Century Russian Literature” were Cathy Nepomnyashchy, Barnard and

Dozens of alumni braved a blizzard on February 25 to listen to five heavyweights from the business world discuss the future of private equity. The event was hosted by Everett Weinberger ’86 at Merrill Lynch’s Manhattan office. Lisa Landau Carnoy ’89 (far left) moderated the discussion while (left to right) Michael Behringer ’89, Alex Margolies ’89, Manu Rana ’92 and Alexander Nevab ’87 shared their insights and expertise with the audience. PHOTO: Ethan Rouen ’04J PHOTO: Ethan Rouen ’04J

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Columbia College and the Columbia College Alumni Association are proud to sponsor Dean’s Day 2010. Scheduled for Saturday, June 5, the program provides the opportunity for alumni and parents to participate in thought-provoking lectures and discussions with some of Columbia’s nest faculty.

Dean’s Day 2010 is particularly noteworthy, as it is Dean Michele Moody- Adams’ rst Dean’s Day as Dean of the College. Additionally, Dean’s Day 2010 coincides with Alumni Reunion Weekend. With even more alumni on campus, this year’s event should be the most exciting and well-attended yet.

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8:00 a.m. Registration Opens — Alfred Lerner Hall 8:30–10:15 a.m. Dean’s Continental Breakfast with Opening Address by Michele Moody-Adams, Dean of Columbia College 9:30 a.m. Camp Columbia for Kids

10:30–11:45 a.m. Public Intellectual Lectures Noon–1:30 p.m. Lunch 2:00–3:30 p.m. Core Curriculum Lectures 3:30–5:00 p.m. WKCR, Columbia Daily Spectator and Columbia University Marching Band Anity Receptions and a special performance by the Glee Club and other singing groups

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Stefan Andriopoulos is an wanted a book, I just needed around 1800. It looks at Kant, Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City. associate professor in the to say, “I want that book,” and Hegel and Schopenhauer. Kant What is your favorite food? Department of Germanic I would get it. wrote a book about spirit vi- My wife is Taiwanese- Languages and one of the sions; one wouldn’t expect that. What were the books that got American, so we go to visit her recipients of this year’s Dis- I look at these philosophical you into literature? family and I love those 10–12 tinguished Columbia Faculty texts and I focus on how they I started with children’s litera- course family dinners, minus Awards, aka the Lenfest intersect with contemporane- ture. When I was 14 or 15, I the sea cucumber. I am ex- Awards (so named in honor ous optical technologies, spe- started reading serious fiction. tremely fond of these banquets of their creator, trustee Gerry cifically the magic lantern that with many courses where you Lenfest ‘58L). Andriopoulos’ How did you end up at was used to stage ghost shows have to pace yourself. research focuses on media Columbia? in dark rooms, an early version history and interrelations of I was visiting New York, and of cinema, as it were. I also ex- Do you often travel to literature and science. The I met the woman who is now amine Gothic novels from the Taiwan? author of three books, We usually go once a he earned his Ph.D. year, most often around from the University of Five Minutes with … Stefan Andriopoulos spring break. The flight Hamburg and studied is very long. at UC Irvine and UC Berkeley my wife. I stayed with a same period. There you also If you could be anywhere before coming to Columbia. friend, and she was a friend have ghostly apparitions that in the world, where would of that friend. Soon after that, are terrifying and shocking. Where did you grow up? you be? there was an opening for a I grew up in Germany, in a Ghost shows? A Greek Island in September beginning assistant profes- small town a half-hour from Etienne Robertson staged his when the tourists are gone and sorship in the German de- Frankfurt. phantasmagorias in a com- it’s still beautiful. My father is partment at Columbia, and I pletely dark vault where he Greek. As a child, I’d spend What did you want to be applied and I got the job. every summer in Greece. when you were growing up? would project magic lantern What were your initial im- slides on hidden screens, I have to admit, I always want- How do you recharge? pressions of New York? or even on smoke. There is ed to be a professor. I don’t I have to get out of the city It’s very fast and very global. no clear boundary between remember what I wanted to be sometime, which isn’t the I do think that makes it eas- screen and audience. In the when I was very young, but I easiest. I also recharge by ier to be an immigrant here. middle of the room, there’s a do remember in high school, I reading crime novels. It’s a Nearly 40 percent of New cloud of smoke, and there’s a wanted to become a professor way of distracting myself. Yorkers are born abroad, so projection on that. The high- of German literature. arriving in New York City is lights were sudden magnifi- What is your favorite place How did that happen at such very different from arriving in cations that were terrifying out of the city? a young age? the rest of the United States. to the audience because it The Berkshires are really I read a lot as a child. My It’s very normal to have an seemed as if the figures were beautiful. They remind me of mother was a teacher of Ger- accent. People come from all looming out at the viewer. a German landscape. man literature, so there was over the world. Do you travel to Germany What’s your favorite spot in always a lot of literary fiction What will you be teaching in often? the city? around me. Whenever I the fall? I go back two or three times a Close by, I like Riverside Park I will be teaching a class on year for conferences and to visit a lot. I’m also a fan of Brook- Weimar Cinema, German silent family, but I never stay long. lyn, especially the area around film from the 1920s. I also will Prospect Park. I have friends Do you have any children? be teaching a class on German there. It’s a long subway ride, My wife, Lisa Chang, and I intellectual history called so I don’t go every week. But are expecting our first child in “Spirit and Ghosts from Kant whenever I’m there, I really August. to Marx.” That is a class about like it. Wave Hill in the Bronx how philosophical notions Where do you live? also is very beautiful. of spirit overlap with ghostly I live on Claremont Avenue in What on your resume are metaphors, and how canonical Morningside Heights. philosophical texts intersect you most proud of? with the Gothic novel and con- What’s something your stu- I’m too young to answer that temporaneous optical media. dents would never guess question. about you? What are you working on? To watch excerpts from this I listen to electronic music and My current book interview, go to www.college. drum and bass. project is about columbia.edu/cct. ghosts and What’s the last great book Interview and photo: apparitions you read for pleasure? Ethan Rouen ’04J

may/june 2010 10 columbia college today around the quads alumni in the News n The financial crisis seemed to on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. strike every corner of the economy, Morris is one of the most influen- but at Florida-based Heico Corp., tial people in the music world, and the last two years have been busi- his labels have produced hits by ness as usual. The company, run superstars such as Rihanna, Kanye Become a fan of by Laurans Mendelson ’60, ’61 West, U2, Lady Gaga and the Black Columbia College Business, and his sons, Eric ’87, ’89 Eyed Peas. Joining Morris at the ® Business, and Victor ’89, does not unveiling of the star were two of Today on Facebook make or sell the hottest new prod- his musicians, R&B legend Mary uct. Instead, it supplies components J. Blige and wil.i.am of the Black Keep in touch with used in defense, space, medicine Eyed Peas. Both spoke about Mor- fellow alumni and get and homeland security. “This is a ris’ role in their success. very boring company,” Laurans, the latest news from who served on Columbia’s Board Running a business was a family n Katori Hall ’03’s The Mountaintop of Trustees, told The Miami Herald goal for Laurans Mendelson ’60, was the surprise winner of the Best the College and CCT. in a lengthy profile of the pub- ’61 Business (seated) and his sons, New Play award at the 2010 Olivier licly traded company, published Eric ’87, ’89 Business (left) and Awards, the top prizes in British in January. It also is a company Victor ’89. theater and the equivalent of the making high-margin products in Tony Awards on Broadway. The several recession-proof industries. arrest was making headlines at this play, about Martin Luther King’s Victor first noticed Heico while year’s festival, too. Children of Inven- last night before he was assassi- he was a College student, and the tion was one of only five movies nated, debuted in London in 2009 Advertise family thought that taking control used to launch YouTube Rentals, the and ran at two theaters, including would be an ideal way to achieve online video company’s experiment Trafalgar Studios in the West End, here! their dream of running a company in online video-on-demand rent- receiving much critical acclaim. Pro- together. Since the Mendelsons als. Unlike so many other options ducers there said they plan to bring Connect with all took control in the early ’90s, for at-home movie watching, the The Mountaintop back to the theater Heico’s stock has outperformed new site allows viewers to interact and are discussing a Broadway run. Columbia College alumni. that of Berkshire Hathaway, run by with artists. Chun posted video CCT profiled Hall in its March/ investment guru Warren Buffett ’51 blogs during the festival, April 2008 issue (www. Reach an audience of Business. answering questions posed college.columbia.edu/ by viewers in the site’s cct_archive/mar_apr08). prominent, affluent, n Tom Kitt ’96 and Brian Yorkey comments section. well-educated readers ’93’s Tony Award-winning musical, n John Chachas ’86 Next to Normal, has earned another n Sam Bisbee ’90 needs to has thrown his hat in who are leaders in their prestigious trophy — the 2010 Pu- make room on his shelf. He the ring to take on one fields — attorneys, litzer Prize for drama. Given by was the producer and sang of the United States’ the Journalism School, the $10,000 the closing song for The most powerful senators. physicians, politicians, Katori Hall ’03 award is one of the most highly New Tenants, which won Chachas quit his job as Photo: Christine scientists … yes, even a regarded an American playwright the Oscar for Best Live Ac- Cain-Weidner an investment banker in can receive. The Pulitzer Board said tion Short Film at the Acad- New York and returned to President. the musical, with book and lyrics emy Awards in March. his native Nevada to run by Yorkey and music by Kitt, is “a The Dutch film focuses on two men in the Republican primary for that Significant savings powerful rock musical that grapples who move into an apartment and state’s Senate seat. If he wins, he with mental illness in a suburban find themselves entangled in its will face off against Senate Major- opportunity. Call today to family and expands the scope of horrific history. ity Leader Harry Reid in Novem- subject matter for musicals.” ber. A managing director at Lazard find out more. n Be careful not to step on Doug Freres and Co., Chachas grew up n Tze Chun ’02’s Children of Inven- Morris ’60 when walking down in Ely, Nev., and found success Contact Taren Cowan tion was a favorite at the 2009 Sun- Hollywood Boulevard. Morris, the helping media and entertainment dance Film Festival, and the movie worldwide chairman and CEO of companies such as Disney, Heart at 212-851-7967 or about two children left to fend for Universal Music Group, was hon- and Clear Channel. [email protected]. themselves after their mother’s ored in January with his own star Ethan Rouen ’04J

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student spotlight Rebecca Chan ’12 and Jordan Hollarsmith ’12 Raise Awareness About Climate Change

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shared concern experiments and have the also stayed on a boathouse about environmen- students develop a hypoth- on the Bay of Bengal. tal issues and the esis, perform tests and The trip was an exchange effects of climate discuss the results. Then program organized by the Achange has led Rebecca we would bring that discus- nonprofit Relief International Chan ’12 and Jordan Hollar- sion to the larger scale of as part of the U.S. Depart- smith ’12 down converging what they can do in their ment of State’s Linking Indi- paths. everyday lives,” explains viduals, Knowledge and In March 2008, Chan and Hollarsmith, who was in- Culture initiative, which pro- Hollarsmith were among 15 volved with the program as vided all the funding. The high school students named a first-year student. second leg of the trip was a California Climate Champions Chan, still an active mem- stop in New Orleans, where in a competition sponsored by ber of Earth Tutors, adds, participants stayed at Tulane the California Air Resources “It’s not just a tutoring pro- to learn about disaster relief Board in conjunction with the gram but also a mentoring in the wake of Hurricane British Council’s broader Inter- program. It’s about expo- Katrina. national Climate Champions sure to college and college “We learned a lot about Program. Both initiatives seek students as well as learning disaster relief in Bangladesh, to create a network of young about the environment.” and then we got to hear Tu- adults equipped to educate Chan, from Encinitas, was lane professors speak about Rebecca Chan ’12 (left) and Jordan Hollar- their communities about the one of three California Cli- the science behind the hur- smith ’12 have traveled abroad to study impacts of climate change mate Champions selected to the effects of climate change. ricane and how changes and ways in which individuals represent the United States PHOTO: Jane Zellar ’12E in the local environment can reduce their carbon emis- at the G8 Summit Environ- made the consequences of sions. Winners, selected based ment Ministers Meeting in the local coral reef. the storm even worse. The on communication skills and Kobe, Japan, in May 2008. Chan After these enriching experi- depletion of the low wetlands knowledge of and enthusiasm and other climate champions ences, Chan has a clearer idea led to a greater storm surge,” for the topic, engaged in online from around the world first met regarding the career path she’d explains Hollarsmith, who is an networking with peers and in London in March to develop like to pursue. editor of Catalyst: the Under- attended a “climate camp” a series of goals, three of which “My goal is to bridge the gap graduate Journal of Energy and where they met and learned were to be presented in Kobe. between science and policy,” Environmental Policy, which is from experts. In an effort to achieve a broader says Chan, who majors in chem- affiliated with the Roosevelt “There was a big emphasis representation, the three most istry and political science and Institute, a national, student-run on media training and getting to popular goals — education plans to attend law school. “I’m policy research group. know how environmental policy about climate change through hoping that with a scientific After exploring both the works at different levels of gov- school curricula and a govern- background, I will be able to policy and scientific aspects ernment,” explains Hollarsmith, ment-funded mass media cam- understand what ’s going on of climate change, Hollarsmith who hails from San Francisco. paign, reduction of greenhouse well enough to help implement discovered that she prefers the As California Climate Cham- gas emissions, and humanitarian policy.” latter and has decided to major pions, Chan and Hollarsmith aid for developing nations most Like Chan, Hollarsmith’s in environmental biology. also were expected to under- affected by changes in global cli- passion has taken her far — “I would rather be in the dirt take individual projects to mate — were selected through literally. As a junior in high collecting the data for the pol- raise awareness about climate an online ballot that had more school, she spent three weeks icy makers,” says Hollarsmith, change. They chose to get in- than 20,000 votes. in Bangladesh, which experts whose childhood hero was volved with CU Earth Tutors, an “The idea was really to draw predict would be among the Captain Planet. “It’s extremely afterschool program for middle attention not only to the issue countries most affected by important to have the strong school students at the Urban of climate change but also to rising sea levels as a result of science to back up the issues. Science Academy in the Bronx point out that the younger gen- changes in global tempera- Without that science, nothing and the Future Leaders Insti- eration needs to be involved,” tures. During her time in Ban- would get passed.” tute in Harlem. The program, says Chan. gladesh, Hollarsmith met with designed to educate youth Chan also was one of two numerous humanitarian and Nathalie Alonso ’08, from about environmental issues, American students selected to environmental NGOs and be- Queens, is a freelance journal- meets on Fridays throughout attend a climate camp in Oki- came familiar with local grass- ist and an editorial producer of the school year and is run en- nawa, Japan, in August 2009, roots environmental move- LasMayores.com, Major League tirely by Columbia students. during which she studied the ments. She lodged in a hotel in Baseball’s official Spanish lan- “We would direct science effects of climate change on Dhaka for part of the time and guage Web site.

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Roar Lion Roar n MILESTONE: Kyle Merber ’12 believable feeling,” Merber said in and Jackie Jacobson ’11 received 9–5 mark in Ivy competition, both became the first Columbia runner an e-mail interview with Heps- honorable mention All-America school records for victories. Sara to run a sub–4-minute mile when Track.com. “That moment was ev- honors in sabre. Yee ’10E was named the Ivy League he won the Columbia Last Chance erything that I could have dreamed On the men’s side, Dwight Defensive Player of the Year for the Meet at the Armory on March 5 of and more … beyond my wildest Smith ’10 finished third in epee to second consecutive season. with a time of 3 minutes, 58.52 dreams. Running at our home earn first-team All-America honors seconds. His time, which was four meet in front of all my teammates and Jeff Spear ’10 was seventh in n FOLEY: Patrick Foley ’10 was seconds better than his previous and my parents made this experi- sabre to earn second-team honors. named to ESPN The Magazine’s lifetime best, set an Ivy League ence that much more valuable.” Academic All-America first team, record for the indoor mile, break- For another perspective on Mer- n LOMAX: Judie Lomax ’11 the first Columbia men’s basketball ing the mark of 3:58.70 set by Bill ber’s race, see “Alumni Corner” in Bar-nard became the first Columbia player to be so honored. Foley, a Burke of Princeton in 1991. this issue. To watch a video of the women’s basketball player to two-time co-captain who missed “Crossing the finish line and historic run, go to www.college. achieve All-America status when 12 games due to injury as a senior, looking up at the clock was an un- columbia.edu/cct, “Web Exclusives.” she was named an honorable men- was Columbia’s third-leading Meanwhile, at the same meet, tion All-American by the Associated scorer this season at 8.5 ppg and the women’s 4x400m relay team Press on March 30. The 5-foot-11 led the Lions with 2.4 apg. A third of Kyra Caldwell ’12, Yamira Bell forward, the first woman to lead the team Academic All-America last ’13, Kristen Houp ’12 and Sharay nation in rebounding in consecutive season, Foley carried a 3.87 GPA Hale ’12 set an Ivy record with a seasons, also became the first Lion as a history major at the time the time 3:38.04. Two other Colum- to receive Ivy League Women’s Bas- award was announced in February. bia women set school records, ketball Player of the Year honors. Serita Lachesis ’10 running 800m in Lomax led the Ivy League in n WINTER ALL-IVY: Judie 2:09.01 and Jacqueline Drouin ’11 scoring (18.6 ppg), rebounding Lomax ’11 Barnard was the only running the mile in 4:45.35. (14.2 rpg), steals (2.6 spg) and min- unanimous selection to the utes played (37.6 mpg) and ranked women’s basketball All-Ivy first n NCAA CHAMPION: Nicole Ross second in field goal percentage team, while Kathleen Berry ’11 and ’11 won the women’s foil individual (.542) and eighth in assists (2.7 Sara Yee ’10E received honorable championship by capturing 21 of apg). She was the league’s Player mention. In men’s basketball, No- Kyle Merber ’12 leads the pack at her 23 bouts at the NCAA Fencing of the Week six times and saved ruwa Agho ’12, who led the Lions the Heptagonals at Dartmouth on Championships in Cambridge, her best for last, getting 21 points in scoring at 16.3 ppg, was chosen February 28 en route to winning Mass., on March 26. It was Colum- and 21 rebounds against Yale and for the All-Ivy second team. the 3,000m. One week later, he bia’s first women’s foil title since Tzu 20 points and a school-record 27 Several other Columbia student- ran the first sub–four-minute mile Moy ’91, ’02 P&S, in 1990. rebounds in the final weekend of athletes received All-Ivy recogni- in Columbia history. Ross earned first-team All-Amer- the season. tion in winter sports: Photo: Dan Grossman, Maple Leaf Photos ica honors for the second time in The women finished the season First team: Kyra Caldwell ’12 her career. Sammy Roberts ’12E with an 18–10 record overall and a (women’s track and field, 60m hur-

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dles), Sharay Hale ’12 (women’s track and field, 200m and 400m), Campus News Lydia Kopecky ’13 (women’s fenc- n APPLICATIONS: Columbia undergraduate admissions, said form and have it sent to several ing, epee), Kyle Merber ’12 (men’s in a statement. “Chosen from schools at one time. track and field, 3,000m), Adam College once again received a Powell ’11 (men’s swimming, 50 record number of applications, among 26,178 applicants in the free and 100 free), Sammy Roberts with 21,747 students applying most selective admissions cycle n JOHN JAY: The Rare Book & ’12E (women’s fencing, sabre), Dar- for places in the Class of 2014, in our history, admitted students Manuscript Library announced in ia Schneider ’10 (women’s fencing, up from 21,274 a year ago. Ap- hail from 75 countries, all 50 early March the publication of The sabre) and Jeff Spear ’10 (men’s plications have risen each year states, Washington D.C., Puerto Selected Papers of John Jay [Class fencing, sabre). since 1995, when 8,713 appli- Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.” of 1764], Volume 1, 1760–1779. Second team: Erin Cyvan ’11 cations were received. The Class of 2014 is the sec- This will be the first volume of (wrestling, 165 lbs.), Mariele Dunn A total of 1,805 students ond whose size is targeted at seven in a new, annotated edi- ’11 (women’s swimming, 200y 1,070 as the College grows by tion of Jay’s correspondence and breaststroke), D’Meca Homer ’13 were admitted to the Class Barnard (women’s fencing, foil), of 2014 for an admit rate of 200 students across four years. comprises a wide-ranging selec- Jackie Jacobson ’12 (women’s 8.30 percent, making this the The College is committed to tion of the most significant and in- fencing, sabre), Melesa Johnson most selective class in school maintaining small class sizes teresting public and private docu- ’11 (women’s track and field, history. The admit rate was in the Core Curriculum, and ments and letters that Jay wrote 60m hurdles), Kevin Lester ’12 8.92 percent last year, when sections were added in both Lit or received. Volume 1 covers (wrestling, 285 lbs.), Katie Meili the targeted class size was Hum and Art Hum to accommo- Jay’s education at King’s College, ’13 (women’s swimming, 100y increased from 1,020 to 1,070 date the 50 students added to his early legal career, his growing breaststroke), Nnenna Okwara ’13 students, and 8.71 percent the the Class of 2013. political awareness, marriage to (women’s track and field, weight Columbia announced that Sarah (Sally) Van Brugh Livingston throw) and Monique Roberts ’12 year before. Barnard (women’s track and field, SEAS accepted 592 of 4,431 next year it will begin accept- and his increasing involvement pentathlon). The men’s swimming applicants, an admit rate of ing the Common Application, in the Revolutionary cause. The 200y freestyle relay team of Powell, 13.36 percent. Overall, the two although like many selective volume ends with his presidency Darren Pagan ’10E, Jordan Kobb schools received 26,178 ap- schools, it also will require a of Congress and his appointment ’10 and Patrick Dougherty ’13E plicants and admitted 2,397 supplemental form with school- as minister to Spain. and the 200y and 400y medley students for an admit rate of specific questions. The “com- The volumes also will serve as relay teams of Powell, Johnny Bai- 9.02 percent. mon app,” as it is known, is a a gateway to the Papers of John ley ’12, Eric Tang ’10E and Bruno “The Undergraduate Admis- standardized application that Jay Web site, which has more Esquen ’12 also won second team was accepted by 392 colleges than 20,000 pages of Jay and Jay- honors. sions staff and I take great pride Honorable mention: Lou Miller in admitting the Class of 2014,” and universities in 2009–10 and related documents (www.colum- ’10 (wrestling, 197 lbs.). Jessica Marinaccio, dean of allows students to fill out one bia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/jay). around the quads columbia college today Cartoonist Koren Completes Columbia Circle

Edward Koren. Spring Books, 1977.

make-believe, serving as a Dr. Seuss for Edward Koren. Pantheon Books, Cover of 1981 Spring Catalogue, 1981. grown-ups. His work has been published images: courtesy the artist and the miriam and ira d. Wallach Art Gallery in newspapers and magazines around the world, with nearly 1,000 of his drawings he works of famed cartoonist and friends on paper back to show them enlivening the pages of The New Yorker. Edward Koren ’57 are return- where they came from — a trip to the old While the exhibit is the first full show ing to the place where he began country for the next generation.” of Koren’s work at Columbia, it also drawing the creatures that led to Koren began drawing cartoons for Jester serves as a conclusion for his friend Ros­ T and, who is retiring from Columbia a few his immense success in the art world. while a student and was editor-in-chief of An exhibit of Koren’s cartoons is be- the humor magazine his senior year. weeks after the show is completed. ing shown through Saturday, June 12, at “He was always the star,” says David “It’s very personal,” Rosand says. “It’s the Miriam­ and Ira D. Wallach Art Gal- Rosand ’59, ’65 GSAS, the Meyer Schapiro a reaching back to my most glorious days lery (www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach). Professor of Art History, Koren’s successor at Columbia when I was a freshman and “Having my work shown at Columbia as editor of Jester and curator of the exhibit. drawing for Jester.” Ethan Rouen ’04J is a special kind of homecoming,” Koren “We all hung around waiting for his first writes in the exhibit’s catalogue. “Colum- New Yorker submission to be accepted.” To see video of Edward Koren ’57 and curators bia has been the rootstock of all I’ve done That acceptance came in 1962, and for David Rosand ’59, ’65 GSAS and Diana Fane since graduating and moving on, and this almost five decades, Koren has been daz- ’93 GSAS discuss aspects of the exhibition, go exhibition is like bringing all my family- zling his erudite audience with playful to www.college.columbia.edu/cct.

Edward Koren. “And on my right is Joe Nast, representing an oppos- Edward Koren. Self-Portrait, 1991. ing viewpoint.” 1982.

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2007 Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum 2008 West 46th Street and 12th Avenue, Pier 86 • New York City Tickets will be available for purchase at the Intrepid the night of the event 2009 or in advance at www.college.columbia.edu/intrepid. 2010 Admission: $25 Questions? Call 212-851-7977. 9ebkcX_W9ebb[][ CCT10_CC_Intrepid_8.25x10.875ID.1 1 4/6/10 3:08:01 PM columbia college today 2010 John Jay Awards Presented to Five Alumni

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ive accomplished College alumni were honored on March 3 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City with 2010 John Jay Awards for distinguished profes- Fsional achievement. Brian C. Krisberg ’81, ’84L, an attorney; Frank Lopez- Balboa ’82 and Tracy V. Maitland ’82, both from the finance sector; David Rosand ’59, ’65 GSAS, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History; and Julia Stiles ’05, a stage and film actress, were joined by alumni, faculty, students, family and friends at the black-tie event, which drew more than 600 attendees and raised more than $1 million for the John Jay Scholars Program. The Scholars Program provides outstanding first-year College students the opportunity to participate in special programs such as panels, discussions and outings, all de- signed to promote intellectual growth, leadership develop- ment and global awareness. Board of Trustees Chair William V. Campbell ’62, ’64 TC welcomed the guests and introduced Columbia College Alumni Association President Geoffrey J. Colvin ’74, ’77L, ’78 Business, who introduced and thanked the dinner’s co- chairs. One of the co-chairs, Louis De Chiara ’82, introduced the keynote speaker, Marit Perlman Shapiro ’10, a John Jay Scholar, who spoke on behalf of all John Jay Scholars. Shapiro, a Los Angeles native, said how thankful she was that Columbia “took a chance” on her and spoke of how the Scholars Program has impacted her career choice. After working in a hospital in Madagascar “finding [her- self] in a delivery room,” she decided she wanted to be an obstetrician and plans to focus her work either in develop- ing countries or inner cities in the United States. Columbia and the Scholars Program, Shapiro said, “taught me flex- ibility, taught me the value of continued learning, taught me the importance of service to my community and taught me to have enthusiasm.” Each of the honorees was introduced by a John Jay Scholar: Elizabeth Lamoste ’10, Krisberg; Salman Somjee ’10, Lopez- Balboa; Atanas Atanasov ’10, Maitland; Shalom Sokolow ’10, Rosand; and Aaron Krieger ’10, Stiles. Dean Michele Moody-Adams, attending her first John Jay Awards Dinner, addressed the attendees and thanked the honorees for “setting such stellar examples of all a Columbia College education will allow one to achieve.” She quoted from a letter written in 1785 by John Jay [Class of 1764] about the importance of making a “proper degree of education” available to all and described the honorees as “people who have done extraordinary things with that ‘proper degree of education’ provided by this great institution.” The evening concluded with the Clefhangers singing Sans Souci and Roar, Lion, Roar.

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Clockwise, from top: Dean Michele Moody- Adams joins the honorees before the start of the 32nd John Jay Awards Dinner; President Lee C. Bollinger got a laugh when he remarked, “You know it’s a quiet year on campus when the biggest story is a coyote sighting”; Tracy V. Maitland ’82 told how his Columbia education “helped my ability to think and to solve problems”; David Rosand ’59, ’65 GSAS (with his wife, Ellen), the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, said he “crossed the East River in 1955 and never looked back”; and Julia Stiles ’05 (with her parents) quoted Sophocles, “All I know is that I know nothing,” and said, “Columbia taught me that my career and studies were complementary. Your life is an education. You never stop learning.”

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Clockwise from top: John Jay Scholars (left to right) Atanas Atanasov ’10, Marit Perlman Shapiro ’10, Salman Somjee ’10, Shalom Sokolow ’10, Elizabeth Lamoste ’10 and Aaron Kriger ’10 played a prominent role in the program, introducing the honorees and explaining the impact of the John Jay Scholars Program; Brian Krisberg ’81, ’84L (with his family) said he received “a rigorous and extraordinary education” at Columbia that taught him how to think, write and explore, and also learned “the importance of giving back”; the Clefhangers closed the evening with renditions of Sans Souci and Roar, Lion, Roar; and Frank Lopez-Balboa ’82 (left, with his brother, Victor ’82) said he has “never taken for granted the amazing education I received at Columbia.”

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Gareth Williams’ Core Principles

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n an icy February morning, 15 first-years stumbled into a mez- zanine room in Fayerweather Hall for Literature Humanities. It was shortly before 11 a.m., and most of them looked like they had just rolled out of bed. Some pulled out their laptops and swapped YouTube videos, gradually increasing the volume on the speakers to drown out one another. As Gareth Williams, the Vio- t a young age, Williams was gripped by the same sub- lin Family Professor of Clas- jects he still teaches. The son of a Welsh pharmacist, he sics and chair of Literature Humanities, walked into the room, attended school during a time when Latin still was a the noise ceased. Williams went over some administrative issues Acompulsory subject. O— the students requested no midterm but were overruled — “I was taught by a very energetic teacher. Corporal punish- before jumping into his lecture. The morning’s topic was Saint ment was all the rage, and he had many techniques that worked,” Augustine’s Confessions, originally published more than 1,600 Williams jokes. “I just found the language fascinating as a form years ago, but within 10 minutes the class discussion had cov- of verbal mathematics. I found the gram- ered Tony Blair’s comments about the war in Iraq, Tiger Woods’ mar system very enticing. I learned Latin, Gareth Williams infidelity and John Edwards’ political career. and I came to understand the English lan- breathes life into Williams’ Ph.D. from Cambridge isn’t the only thing that makes guage a whole lot better.” ancient texts, him a doctor. For more than 16 years, Williams has been resusci- Williams threw himself into reading whether teaching tating the dead, breathing life into ancient languages and texts for Latin and Greek, starting with The Iliad and Literature Humani- hundreds of students. Whether it is Greek, Latin or the books of Lit going from there to whatever he could get ties to first-years Hum, Williams provides a relevance and sense of immediacy that his hands on. Although bookish, he also or classics to up- infuse in his young students powerful messages they can take with was an avid hiker and squash player, ac- perclass students. Photo: David them to academia, law, finance or on any career path. tivities he still keeps up. Wentworth “As a classicist, I’m committed to relating ancient experience By the time he got to college, Williams and knowledge to modern affairs,” he says. “You can’t just in- was confident in both languages, although he refuses to call him- sist on the worthwhileness of learning. You have to grip students self fluent. with an enthusiasm for ancient culture or with a sense of learning “Latin and Greek are languages that need work constantly,” a language in a particular way. What I try to do is give students a he says. “They are extremely humbling subjects. I really want sense of ownership.” to resist the idea that I’m fluent. When you think that, you get

may/june 2010 22 gareth williams columbia college today tripped up and complacent. I read some Latin and Greek every “To see how the ancients use therapeutic techniques to think day. It’s like a car that needs constant maintenance.” about the trauma of earthquakes and to try to recover gives a Williams received his bachelor’s and doctorate from Cam- very moving take on modern reaction to the horrific images of bridge, completing all of his coursework in less than seven years. the Haiti earthquake,” he says. Entering into a dismal job market in the early 1990s, he was of- It’s not just the great events of our times that play a role fered a job in Columbia’s Classics Department. in Williams’ teaching. During class, he makes a point of call- At the time, New York was a vastly different place. The city’s ing on every student, offering softball questions to encourage crime rate had just started its dramatic downward spiral. And the participation, then drawing out the students with engaging Yankees — Williams’ adopted team — were heading toward the follow-ups. end of their longest World Series drought, having not won the During a class this semester, one student said of Confessions, “It championship in 14 years. was boring. I know why he did it. I just don’t really care.” The Core Curriculum, though, had remained largely un- Williams saw this statement not as a rebuke but as a challenge, changed for more than half a century, influencing the lives of using the moment as a chance to proselytize without sounding world leaders, business moguls and leading academics. preachy. With only a few words of encouragement from the pro- Williams fit well into New York — he lives on Riverside Drive fessor, the students used Augustine’s intimate memoir to discuss with his wife and 9-year-old daughter — and the pedagogy of this current time of so many public and humiliating confessions, the Core. As a classicist, he saw the Core as a way to recruit stu- and before they realized it, they were extracting valuable material dents to his field. More importantly, it serves as a tool to shape his from the text while avoiding the main character with whom some teaching and the learning of young adults just becoming aware of said they could not connect. what their minds are capable of. Although Williams refuses to claim any credit for influencing

“To teach in the Core, at least as I see it, is not to come in de- the Core, his colleagues tell a different story. He has been a tireless termined to insist that there are these great books that must be servant to Lit Hum and the Core, giving his teaching style reach worshiped as great by the students,” he says. “I come to the Core beyond the students who sit in his class. interested in the problems raised by these texts and by world out- “Gareth has had a major role in the Core,” says Kathryn Yatra- looks conveyed by the texts and by introspection probed by these kis, dean of academic affairs. “We ask him to deliver the first Lit texts. Hum lecture to the first-year class during orientation. It enthralls “The texts, for me, interrogate aspects of human experience all the students. I couldn’t think of a better person for them to and aspects of human psychology. I find that students become hear from.” very interested in thinking about the way lives are written about Williams organizes trips to museums, staged readings and and about how the written experience within those texts relates lectures that provide students with a deeper understanding and to their own lives. In that respect, it is an experiment in immer- another way to commune with what they are learning. He intro- sion in the writing of experience across the ages.” duced the annual course-wide Core lecture, which has proven The universality of the syllabus shows up in almost every lec- wildly successful. ture Williams gives. Current events blur with ancient writings “He’s a wonderful chair to work for,” says Deborah Martin- to instill in his students the shared experiences that reach across sen, associate dean of alumni education. “He is a model of grace time and culture. and gratitude. He makes sure that people receive recognition for The earthquake in Haiti in January served as a chance to exam- their services, which is wonderful. And the students think he’s a ine how ancient cultures wrote about and experienced the same rock star.” traumas we suffer today, to prove that the value of the books that His dedication also shows is in his work behind the scenes. are taught over and over is not in the recording of history but in Williams teaches the preceptor seminar for all graduate students the emotions and realities those writings evoke. teaching Lit Hum and organizes a weekly lecture for faculty. Dur-

may/june 2010 24 columbia college today gareth williams ing the semester, he sits in on at least one class of each of his pre- communal atmosphere of the Core Curriculum, the fact that we ceptors, about 30 classes a year. talk to each other, we debate, we hone skills and articulation and “He’s extraordinarily supportive outside of class,” says Karen we actually take time to reflect upon the book and upon life in Emmerich, a second-year preceptor and a graduate student in this high-paced age, that’s really important.” English and comparative literature. “He’s willing to meet with you any time. He shapes the way preceptors design their class- wo hours of Augustine were winding down. Even the room experience. People tend to model how they interact in the students who had been dodging Williams’ glance had classroom and how they interact with students on how he inter- been forced to participate. While some did not connect acts with you.” T with the text, they had at least realized its relevance in modern times. illiams is rooted in a past that he is fighting to pre- Laptops remained opened, and some students had wandered serve while embracing new ways of learning that away from lecture notes to Facebook pages. Suddenly, attention can add value. He is open to bringing new books was again focused on the front of the classroom as Williams made W into the Core Curriculum, but wants the debate to his final point. be positive and productive. “Augustine envelops the Bible,” he said. “He is in love, lost in “Be it a contemporary writer, be it writers from different cultur- something.” al backgrounds, we can always argue about exclusion and inclu- Williams offered his own example of watching passion unin- sion in the syllabus,” he says. “We will never produce a satisfactory hibited — a Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Do you syllabus upon which everyone can agree. I feel that the challenge see a picture, or do you get a sense that this is a man lost in his art, there is to turn debate about the syllabus into a productive conver- that this is him?”

sation and not a form of conversation that is attritional.” It was as if the coffee had just kicked Relating ancient Williams still uses a paper organizer to write assignments in. Hands shot up, everyone vying for a experience and and plans. He admits that new technologies that provide vast chance to share the witnessing of true love. knowledge to amounts of research material at the click of a mouse have been Peppered with the “likes” and “ums” of modern events, a boon for academia, but he laments the pace at which these ad- nascent minds developing the confidence such as the earth- vancements force people to move. to explain their own thoughts was the elo- quake in Haiti, is The Core, he believes, is a chance to capture what is lost in quence of inspirati on. one way Williams these new ways of communicating. Reading these texts forces “It blew my mind,” one shy student engages his Lit students to slow down for a moment, to stop bouncing from one said of watching the Philadelphia Orches- Hum students. Web page to another and focus on the thousands of words that tra. “I saw emotion in every move they Photos: David have been preserved through the ages for reasons that can only made. The true emotion of music came Wentworth be realized with time and dedication. out.” The syllabus also offers a communal experience, a chance to Class came to an end, and it seemed a shame to let these meet face to face during a time when so much is accomplished students go at such a crescendo, but they’d be back in a couple face to screen. Analyzing these texts is a subjective process, and days. Meanwhile, Williams sent them away with some parting the tone of a response, the sigh of exasperation when trudging advice: “Do something you get lost in,” he said. “If you could through The Iliad, cannot be preserved in an e-mail. find something to get lost in in your life, you will be incredibly “We’re so automated, we’re so fast-paced, it’s a very good lucky people.” thing to slow our students down a bit so that they have to pick up the book, read page by page and reflect page by page,” Williams says. “We’re moving in ways that are so privatized in life, that the Ethan Rouen ’04J is Columbia College Today’s associate editor.

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Journalists may be society’s watchdogs, but public editor Clark Hoyt ’64 is the man who watches over the watchdogs at The New York Times

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lark Hoyt ’64, who won a Pulitzer Prize in the 1970s and was for many years Washington bureau chief for the Knight Ridder chain, now finds himself on the front lines of journalism ethics, assessing the work of writers, editors and photographers at The New York Times. As the Times’ public editor, Hoyt fields com- plaints from Times readers, investigates those inquiries and then Cwrites a Sunday column in The Week in Review section that il- luminates issues that touch many corners of journalism ethics. One recent subject was the use of anonymous sources in stories, another the conflict of interest that arises when freelance writers accept gifts from sources, another the paper’s response to ru- mors about a forthcoming Times investiga- For the past three tion that had surfaced in other media and years, Clark Hoyt angered public officials. ’64 has worked “It’s a strange job,” says Hoyt, 67, one to maintain the day in January during an interview in his highest level of office at the Times headquarters in mid- journalistic stan- town Manhattan. “You are called upon to dards at The New pass judgment in a very public way. It’s not York Times. an easy job. But I find it fascinating. I’m al- Photo: Daniella Zalcman ’09 lowed to think about issues I’ve dealt with for my entire career. And I hope it has been useful to the Times and the Times’ readers.” Hoyt was hired in 2007 as the paper’s third public editor, a position known as ombudsman at many other dailies around the world. The position was established in 2003 after Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught fabricating quotes in several stories. An independent contractor, Hoyt works outside the normal report- ing and editing structure at the Times. Hoyt shares his stories before they are printed with those he has interviewed, to make sure his columns accurately reflect his clark hoyt ’64 columbia college today subjects’ positions. But top editors who aren’t in the column see it Some columns address issues of questionable reporting and first when it appears on Sunday. editing, such as a story that appraised the career of CBS newsman Hoyt has served in the position longer than his predecessors; he Walter Cronkite following his death. That piece had seven errors completed his two-year contract in 2009, and agreed to a third year that were subsequently corrected in a note to readers. that ends in June. Times executives have yet to announce a succes- “It was horrifying,” recalls Hoyt. “Five editors had eyes on it. sor, or even whether they will keep the job in existence. Since 2008, The appraisal was written before Cronkite’s death, and everyone 13 U.S. dailies have dropped that position, notes Jeffrey Dworkin, thought someone else had edited it.” executive director of the Organization of News Ombudsmen. Hoyt hopes that his columns provide a wake-up call for Times “I think Clark has set the standard,” says Dworkin, who was journalists who may have taken a short cut or failed to live up to ombudsman at National Public Radio from 2000–06. “He is fear- the newspaper’s standards for fairness and accuracy. less. He has taken on big issues, such as bias and fairness in cov- “I want to talk about how something happened so we could erage of the presidential campaign and the use of visuals from learn from it, instead of wagging a finger and taking a holier- Haiti. He has cast a very clear eye on how they have done it — at than-thou approach,” he says. “You also have to make sure you times doing a great job, and at times, less than perfect. Through talk about the work, not the person. The New York Times is a great Clark, the Times has taken a hard look at itself to make sure its newspaper and it produces great journalism every day, under journalism is always at the highest level.” very trying circumstances. In certain cases, it doesn’t live up to On that visit in January, Hoyt was addressing reader concerns those standards.” over provocative front-page pictures published from Haiti. Pho- On particularly thorny issues, Hoyt will consult with Kelly tographers had captured the deadly January 12 earthquake with McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute for Media powerful images, including a picture by Damon Winter ’97 of a Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., who says those conversations can dead man, covered in gray dust, who lay stiffly on a makeshift go on for an hour or two. For example, McBride recalls speaking stretcher. to Hoyt at length about the question of whether it was proper for Some readers complained that the images were exploitative reporters to contact underage sources through the social-media and disrespected the dead, and questioned whether the Times site Facebook. would publish photos of Americans who had died in a natural During the 2008 election, a reporter working on a profile of disaster. Others lauded the Times photographers for their coura- presidential candidate John McCain’s wife, Cindy, had reached geous portrayal of one of the Western Hemisphere’s most de- out to high school students at private schools that McCain’s structive natural disasters. Hoyt’s research was arrayed on his desk — full-color repro- ductions of front pages from the Times’ coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the tsunami that struck Indonesia with such devastation in 2004. Both included pictures of dead victims. Hoyt “Everything needs to be supported and infused with facts.” had his own news judgment as well, developed from more than four decades in the daily newspaper business. It boiled down to six words: “You get it, you show it.” daughter, Bridget, had attended, asking for leads to adults who To reach his conclusion, however, Hoyt had to report on the knew Mrs. McCain. story. He interviewed photo editors about why they chose those Hoyt suggested that reporters find other ways to find such images. He e-mailed Winter, who was still in Haiti. Winter told information, urging them to be wary of contacting minors with- Hoyt how people had begged him to take pictures of their de- out knowledge of their parents. In that same column, however, parted family members, so the world would truly understand he approved of the use of information from a 12-year-old con- their country’s plight. He interviewed Times Editor Bill Keller, cerning an assault by police. Hoyt argued that while the boy’s who said that Winter’s picture of the solitary man, dead on the father had not given permission for the interview, he did not stretcher, helped humanize the tragedy. The next day, Hoyt wrote object after learning that a reporter had spoken to his son. The a dispassionate column, saying that the photos of disaster victims reporter had also confirmed what the boy had told law enforce- were in keeping with Times practice in the previous natural disas- ment investigators. ters of epic proportions. “What I admire most about Clark is that he takes issues that “Where do you draw the line?” says Hoyt, who commutes to aren’t black-and-white, and he explores them with a fair amount New York weekly from northern Virginia, where he lives with his of nuance,” says McBride. “He treats the individuals involved wife, Linda Kauss, deputy managing editor at USA Today. “You with an incredible amount of dignity and respect, without being need to respect the dead, but you also need to tell the world what patronizing.” has happened.” Daniel Okrent, the Times’ first public editor, says Hoyt has ben- Veteran Times reporter Joe Berger ’67J says Hoyt’s solid re- efitted from the fact that the Times staff has grown to expect the search and reporting has provided a strong foundation for his public criticism, after he and Byron “Barney” Calame, a former findings in various investigations. Wall Street Journal editor, had the job. Hoyt also came to the job “I haven’t agreed with him every time, but for the most part, with less to prove, Okrent adds. the columns are good,” says Berger. “He has taken on some “I think I had too much fun, Barney didn’t have enough fun, tough issues, articulated his reasoning clearly and backed it up and Clark has it just about right,” says Okrent. “I showed off with evidence.” more, and I came in with a chip on my shoulder, so the reporters Taking on the public editor’s post has brought Hoyt back into were gunning for me. Clark has a well-nuanced approach. He the world of reporting, more than 30 years after he left writing seems temperamentally suited for it.” about the Washington political scene for Knight Ridder to be- Calame agrees. “Clark knows how to deal with issues in a less come one of the chain’s editors. obstreperous fashion than I did,” he says. “That doesn’t mean

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Clark doesn’t deliver strong medicine, because he does. He just from federal district court, sitting through the famous 18-minute has a better bedside manner than I did.” gap in the recording President Nixon made in his White House Even with his journalistic even-handedness, Hoyt acknowl- office. He also was in Washington, D.C., Superior Court when Wa- edges that his columns can sting. While his interactions have tergate burglar James McCord was arraigned and told the judge in large part been collegial, with Times editors and reporters re- that he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. Hoyt was in sponding to his questions with professionalism and candor, he the back of courtroom and didn’t hear the revelation. Washington says there have been occasional brush-ups with those he has Post reporter Bob Woodward had a better seat. called to task. “The acoustics were terrible; Woodward heard it and I didn’t,” “No one likes to be called on these things,” says Hoyt. “Many says Hoyt. “We walked back from the hearing, chatting about the journalists have very thin skins. They are able to be tough when it hearing, and Bob never mentioned to me what he had heard.” comes to reporting and holding an unblinking eye to others, but In 1972, Hoyt and his Knight Newspapers colleague Robert can be unenthusiastic to be held accountable themselves.” Boyd received a tip about Democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton, regarding his history of treatment for mental oyt’s love affair with journalism dates back to his illness, including electroshock therapy. They investigated, and it childhood in Hawaii, where his family lived in 1949 turned out to be true. But before publishing what they’d discov- during one of his father’s postings as a Navy dentist. ered, they had to confront Eagleton and his running mate, George When Hoyt was 8, he and his brother, Charles, pub- McGovern, with what they had found. lished a neighborhood newspaper, The Maloelap Snoop. It kept the Shortly thereafter, Eagleton held a press conference, disclosed HNavy families updated on the latest coming and goings in the his medical history and dropped out of the race. Hoyt and Boyd neighborhood not far from Pearl Harbor, where dogs roamed then wrote the story, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973. free and Hoyt occasionally brought home an unexploded hand “We went to them with what we had, asking for comment,” says grenade. Hoyt. “They chose to announce it before we had published it.” It was then that Hoyt discovered he had what it took to be a Hoyt went on to numerous posts within the chain, which be- journalist — an instinct for finding things out, and a desire to tell came Knight Ridder in a 1974 merger. He was news editor for the people about what he had found. Washington bureau, business editor in Detroit and managing edi- “We’d report on whose dog left their calling card on a lawn,” tor of the Eagle-Beacon in Wichita, Kan. He returned to Washing- recalls Hoyt. “People loved it, they really did.” ton in 1985, and was the chain’s bureau chief from 1987–93, when “Everything needs to be supported and infused with facts.”

At Columbia, Hoyt was an English major, studying with pro- he moved to Knight Ridder’s corporate offices as v.p. for news. fessors such as Lionel Trilling ’25 and Jeffrey Hart. He considered Six years later, Hoyt was back in the nation’s capital as Wash- entering the foreign service, having developed an interest in ington editor with responsibility for the Knight Ridder Washing- Latin American affairs, in part from his father’s stay at the Navy ton bureau and editorial operations of Knight Ridder Tribune base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hoyt worked exactly one day on News Services. He held that post until 2006, when Knight Rid- Spectator — he was assigned to read page proofs at the shop that der was purchased by The McClatchey Co. He was on a one-year printed the paper, which was a considerable subway ride down- consulting assignment with McClatchey when he received a call, town. It wasn’t for him. asking if he was interested in the Times assignment. “I just wasn’t motivated,” Hoyt says. Hoyt was about to spend a semester as the James K. Batten vis- After graduating from Columbia, he landed a job in the of- iting professor of public policy at Davidson College but instead fice of Sen. George Smathers of Florida, writing speeches and decided to take on the challenge at the Times. So for the past three researching policy issues. By 1966, however, Hoyt plunged into years, he has spent three days at week in New York and worked reporting, taking an entry-level job at The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla. two days from his home office in Virginia. That will end in June, His first assignment was covering a turkey shoot sponsored by but Hoyt looks forward to staying involved in the field, either the local Ku Klux Klan. through writing or teaching. By 1968, Hoyt was in Detroit, reporting for the Detroit Free No matter which direction he takes, Hoyt will remain dedi- Press, one of the Knight chain’s top papers. Two years later, he’d cated to a profession that he believes will continue to play a cru- moved to the Miami Herald as Washington correspondent, cover- cial role in how people view the world — either through print ing national politics at a time when journalists had extraordinary or digital media. He’ll do so by relying on what he considers the access to political candidates. When Henry “Scoop” Jackson was bedrock principles of good journalism. running for president in 1972, Hoyt was one of only two report- “Everything needs to be supported and infused with facts,” ers traveling with Jackson in an old DC 3 prop plane, which Hoyt he says. “You need fairness. A newspaper needs to tell the public recalls had an engine with a tendency to leak oil. whatever it needs to know, in stories that are told with honesty “It’s different today,” says Hoyt. “Now it’s so heavily man- and truthfulness.” aged and scripted. There’s so little spontaneity, so little chance to lift the curtain and see the candidates.” David McKay Wilson has profiled New York Gov. David Paterson ’77 The early 1970s was the heyday of Washington journalism. and U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. ’73, ’76L for Columbia Hoyt was in the trenches during the Watergate era and reported College Today.

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[ Columbia Forum] Freefall In this excerpt from his latest book, University Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that the GDP might be a poor way to assess our standard of living

Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor and the chair of Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought, received the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. He has been chair of the Council on Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Known to his peers as “an insanely great economist” (Paul Krugman), Stiglitz has made his influence known throughout his broad discipline. His work is cited by more economists than anyone else’s in the world, according to data compiled

PHOTO: DAN DEITCH by the University of Connecticut. In this excerpt from his latest book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, Stiglitz argues for a concept that is currently gaining ground: the idea that GDP (gross domestic product), for so long the ne plus ultra of economic measurement, may in fact be a poor way to assess our standard of living. GDP, according to the Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought, is “a measure of the total flow of goods and services produced by the economy … over a specified period.” Too often, Stiglitz contends, GDP doesn’t measure the elements — tangible or intangible — that actually determine our quality of life. A more rounded sampling of data can better portray what Nic Marks, fellow at the New Economics Foundation, calls “the delivery of good lives rather than the delivery of more goods” (Time, January 30, 2010). Here, Stiglitz looks at the way that we measure American well-being. Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard

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What You Measure Is What happening in most countries around the world). A larger pie doesn’t mean that everyone — or even most people — gets a You Value, and Vice Versa larger slice. As I noted in chapter 1, in the United States, by 2008, the median household income was some 4 percent lower than it n a performance-oriented society such as ours, we was in 2000, adjusted for inflation, even though GDP per capita strive to do well — but what we do is affected by (a measure of what was happening on average) had increased what we measure. If students are tested on reading, by 10 percent. teachers will teach reading — but will spend less The objective of societal production is an increase in the well- time developing broader cognitive skills. So too, being of the members of society, however that is defined. Our politicians, policymakers, and economists all strive standard measure is not a good one. There are alternatives. No to understand what causes better performance as single measure can capture the complexity of what is going on measured by GDP. But if GDP is a bad measure of in a modern society, but the GDP measure fails in critical ways. societal well-being, then we are striving to achieve We need measures that focus on how the typical individual is the wrong objective. Indeed, what we do may be doing (measures of median income do a lot better than mea- counterproductive in terms of our true objectives. sures of average income), on sustainability (measures that take Measuring GDP in the United States didn’t really give a good account, for instance, of resource depletion and the worsening Ipicture of what was going on before the bubble burst. America of the environment, as well as the increase of indebtedness), thought it was doing better than it was, and so did others. Bubble and on health and education. The United Nations Development prices inflated the value of investments in real estate and inflated Programme (UNDP) has devised a more comprehensive mea- profits. Many strived to imitate America. Economists did sophis- sure that includes education and health, as well as income. In ticated studies relating success to different policies — but because these metrics, the Scandinavian countries do far better than the their measure of success was flawed, the inferences they drew United States, which ranks thirteenth. from the studies were often flawed. But even when economic measures are broadened to include The crisis shows how badly distorted market prices can health and education, they leave out much that affects our sense be — with the result that our measure of performance is itself of well-being. Robert Putnam has emphasized the importance badly distorted. Even without the crisis, the prices of all goods of our connectedness with others. In America, that sense of con- are distorted because we have treated our atmosphere (and, too nectedness is weakening, and the way we have organized our often, clean water) as if it were free, when in fact it is scarce. economy may contribute. The extent of price distortion for any particular good depends The Himalayan Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan has attempted on the amount of “carbon” that is contained in its production to carve out a different approach. It is trying to create a measure (including in the production of all the components that go into of GNH — gross national happiness. Happiness is only partly its production). related to material goods. Some aspects, like spiritual values, Some of the debates that we have concerning trade-offs be- can’t and probably shouldn’t be quantified. But there are others tween the environment and economic growth are off the mark: that can be (like social connectedness). Even without quantifi- if we correctly measured output, there would be no trade-off. cation, though, focusing on these values highlights some ways Correctly measured output will be higher with good environ- that we should be thinking about redirecting our economy and mental policies — and the environment will be better as well. our society. We would realize that the seeming profits from the gas-guzzlers, like the Hummer (which, in any case, turned out to be ephem- eral), are false: they are at the expense of the well-being of the Security and Rights future. Our economic growth has been based too on borrowing from ne important dimension of societal well-being the future: we have been living beyond our means. So too, some is security. Most Americans’ standards of living, of the growth has been based on the depletion of natural re- their sense of well-being, have declined more than sources and the degradation of the environment — a kind of the national income statistics (“median house- borrowing from the future, more invidious because the debts hold income”) might suggest, partly because of we owe are not so obvious. We are leaving future generations Othe increase in insecurity. They feel less secure about their job, poorer as a result, but our GDP indicator doesn’t reflect this. knowing that if they lose their job they will also lose their health There are other problems with our measure of well-being. insurance. With soaring tuition costs, they feel less secure that GDP per capita (per person) measures what we spend on health they will be able to provide their children with an education care, not the output — the status of our health reflected, for in- that will enable them to fulfill their aspirations. With retirement stance, in life expectancy. The result is that as our health care accounts diminished, they feel less secure that they will spend system gets more inefficient, GDP may appear to increase, even their old age in comfort. Today, a large fraction of Americans though health outcomes become worse. America’s GDP per cap- are also worried about whether they will be able to keep their ita appears higher than that of France and the United Kingdom home. The cushion of home equity, the difference between the partly because our health care system is less efficient. We spend value of the home and the mortgage, has disappeared. Some 15 far more to get far worse health outcomes. million homes, representing about one-third of all mortgages As a final example (there are many more) of the mislead- nationwide, carry mortgages that exceed the value of the prop- ing nature of our standard measures, average GDP per capita erty. In this recession, 2.4 million people have lost their health can be going up even when most individuals in our society not insurance because they lost their job. For these Americans, life only feel that they are worse off, but actually are worse off. This is on a precipice. happens when societies become more unequal (which has been Greater security can even have an indirect effect of promoting

may/june 2010 31 freefall columbia college today growth: it allows individuals to undertake greater risk, know- Leisure and Sustainability ing that if things don’t work out as hoped, there is some level of social protection. Programs that assist people in moving from here are other values that are not captured well in one job to another help ensure that one of our most important our standard measure of GDP: we value leisure, resources — our human talent — is better used. These kinds of whether we use it for relaxation, for time with family, social protection also have a political dimension: if workers feel for culture, or for sports. Leisure can be particularly more secure, there will be fewer demands for protectionism. important for the millions whose jobs provide lim- Social protection without protectionism can thus contribute to Tited immediate satisfaction, those who work to live rather than a more dynamic society. And a more dynamic economy and so- who live to work. ciety — with the appropriate degree of social protection — can Seventy-five years ago, [British economist John Maynard] provide greater satisfaction for both workers and consumers. Keynes celebrated the fact that mankind was, for the first time Of course, there can be excessive job protection — with no in its history, about to be freed from the “economic problem.” discipline for bad performance, there can be too little incentive For all human history, man had devoted most of his energies for good performance. But again, ironically, we have worried to finding food, shelter, and clothing. But advances in science more about these moral hazard/incentive effects among indi- and technology meant that these basic needs could be provid- viduals than among corporations, and this has vastly distorted ed with only a few hours of work a week. For instance, less responses to the current crisis. It hampered the willingness of than 2 percent of the American labor force produces all the the Bush administration to respond to the millions of Americans food that even an overconsuming and rapidly becoming obese losing their homes or jobs. The administration didn’t want to country can eat — with enough left over for our nation to be seem to be “rewarding” those who had engaged in irrespon- a major exporter of wheat, corn, and soybeans. Keynes won- sible borrowing. It didn’t want to increase unemployment in- dered what we would do with the fruits of these advances. surance because that would diminish incentives to look for a Looking at how England’s upper classes spent their time, he job. It should have worried less about these problems and more quite rightly had grounds for worry. about the perverse incentives of the newly established corpo- He did not anticipate fully what rate safety net. has happened, especially in the last (Opposite) Nearly Well-off American corporations also talk about the importance third of a century. America and Eu- 4,000 people lined up of security. They emphasize the importance of security of prop- rope have seemingly responded dif- for jobs outside the erty rights, and how without such security, they won’t undertake ferently. Contrary to Keynes’s pre- renovated Roosevelt investment. They — like ordinary Americans — are “risk averse.” diction, America, as a whole, has not Hotel in New York, Public policy, especially among the Right, has paid a great deal of enjoyed more leisure. The number providing a visual attention to these concerns about security of property. But ironi- of hours worked per household has cally, many have argued that individual security should be re- actually gone up (by some 26 percent example of how a duced, cutting back Social Security and job security for ordinary over the past thirty years). We have rising GDP may not citizens. It is a curious contradiction, and it is paralleled by recent become a consumer/materialistic so- accurately reflect discussions of human rights. ciety: two cars in every garage, iPods economic conditions For decades after the beginning of the Cold War, the United in every ear, and clothes without lim- in American society. States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a battle over hu- it. We buy and dispose. Europe took PHOTO: © JAMES LEYNSE/CORBIS man rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights listed a very different tack. A five-week both basic economic and political rights. The United States only vacation is the norm — Europeans wanted to talk about political rights, the Soviet Union about shudder at our two-week standard. economic rights. Many of those in the Third World, while not- France’s output per hour is higher than that in the United States, ing the importance of political rights, gave greater weight to but the typical Frenchman works fewer hours a year and so has economic rights: What good does the right to vote mean to a a lower income. person starving to death? They questioned whether someone The differences are not genetic. They represent different without any education could meaningfully exercise the right to evolutions of our societies. Most Frenchmen would not trade vote when there are complex issues in dispute. places with most Americans; and most Americans would not Finally, under the Bush administration, the United States trade places with most Frenchmen. The evolution both in began to recognize the importance of economic rights — but the America and in Europe has come without any premeditation. recognition was lopsided: it recognized the right of capital to We should ask ourselves if it is a course that we would have move freely in and out of countries, capital market liberalization. chosen. And as social scientists, we can try to explain why Intellectual property rights and property rights more generally each chose the course it did. are other economic rights that have been emphasized. But why We may not be able to say which lifestyle is better. But the U.S. should these economic rights — rights of corporations — have lifestyle is not sustainable. Others may be more so. If those in the precedence over the more basic economic rights of individuals, developing countries try to imitate America’s lifestyle, the planet such as the rights of access to health care or to housing or to edu- is doomed. There are not enough natural resources, and the im- cation? Or the right to a certain minimal level of security? pact on global warming would be intolerable. America will have These are basic issues that all societies have to face. A full to change — and it will have to change quickly. discussion of the issues would take us beyond the scope of this short book. What should be clear, however, is that these matters of rights are not God-given. They are social constructs. We can Excerpted from FREEFALL: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the think of them as part of the social contract that governs how we World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Copyright (c) 2010 by Joseph E. live together as a community. Stiglitz. With permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Viva Journalism!: The Triumph of posals (Self Counsel Press, $17.95). follows a retired appliance salesman Brier analyzes the role of the novel Print in the Media Revolution by and his ne’er-do-well son as they in post-WWII American mass cul- John C. Merrill and Ralph L. Lowen- Tapestry of the Sun: An Anthology attempt to evade CIA assassins ture (University of Pennsylvania stein ’51. The authors offer insight of Ecuadorian Poetry edited and (Doubleday, $25.95). Press, $49.95). into the future of journalistic writ- translated by Alexis Levitin ’63 and ing and journalism education (Au- Fernando Iturburu. This bilingual po- Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Repeat Until Rich: A Professional thorHouse, $14.99). etry collection is devoted entirely to Sparked the Supply-Side Revolu- Card Counter’s Chronicle of the contemporary Ecuadorian authors tion and Restored American Pros- Blackjack Wars by Josh Axelrad ’96. Blessings for You from Head to Toe (Coimbra Editions, $29.95). perity by Brian Domitrovic ’89. The Axelrad gives readers a nonfiction by Jack H. Bloom ’54. Bloom, a rabbi author outlines the history and phi- account of his four-year stint as and clinical psychologist, presents a Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and losophy of supply-side economics, a professional card counter (The collection of original, freeform po- It’s Ruining Our Conversation by a macroeconomic theory that favors Penguin Press, $25.95). ems (Two Harbors Press, $13.95). David Denby ’65. Denby defines and low taxes and limited regulation as decries “snark,” or unproductive ad a means of encouraging production Coffee with Hezbollah by Belén Conquering Fear: Living Boldly hominem attacks disguised as satir- and competition (Intercollegiate Fernández ’03. Fernández recounts in an Uncertain World by Harold ical wit (Simon & Schuster, $15.95). Studies Institute, $27.95.) a 2006 trip to Lebanon (New World S. Kushner ’55. Kushner counsels Digital Entertainment, $13.99). readers to show confidence in the Clio & the Crown: The Politics of Emergency: This Book Will Save face of the unknown as a way of History in Medieval and Early Mod- Your Life by Neil Strauss ’91. Strauss Cute Yummy Time: 70 Recipes ensuring a happy and tranquil life ern Spain by Richard L. Kagan ’65. The reports on his experiences during a for the Cutest Food You’ll Ever (Knopf, $23.95). author examines the political aims of year spent trying to acquire the basic Eat by La Carmina. Written under a official Spanish court histories from skills that would be necessary to pseudonym by Carmen Yuen ’05, The New York Times on Critical Elec- the sixth to the 17th century (The survive after a natural catastrophe or this illustrated cookbook provides tions, 1854–2008 by Gerald Pomper ’55. Johns Hopkins University Press, $55). economic collapse (It Books, $16.99). step-by-step instructions for creat- Pomper has compiled The New York ing dishes that are aesthetically Times’ commentary about important Contested Will: Who Wrote Shake- Picking Bones from Ash by Marie appealing as well as delicious congressional and presidential elec- speare? by James Shapiro ’77, the Mockett ’92. Mockett’s novel alter- (Perigree, $16.95). tions from the antebellum period to Larry Miller Professor of English nates between the perspectives of present day (CQ Press, $125). and Comparative Literature. Shapiro Satomi, a talented Japanese concert Franklin Delano Roosevelt by chronicles the historical controversy pianist, and Rumi, her American Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Jefferson’s Louisiana: Politics over the authorship of Shakespeare’s daughter (Graywolf Press, $24). Professor of American History and and the Clash of Legal Traditions, plays and discusses its cultural Provost Emeritus. Brinkley’s biog- Revised Edition by George Dargo implications (Simon & Schuster, $26). Looking at Art in the Classroom: raphy calls attention to Roosevelt’s ’57. Dargo describes the conflict Art Investigations from the Gug- limitations as well as his successes between local and national legal Out of Our Heads: Why You genheim Museum by Rebecca Shul- (Oxford University Press, $12.95). policies that occurred in the Louisi- Are Not Your Brain, and Other man Herz ’93. The author explains ana territory during Thomas Jef- Lessons from the Biology of Con- how elementary and middle school Words in Motion: Toward a ferson’s presidency (The Lawbook sciousness by Alva Noë ’86. Noë teachers can improve their curricula Global Lexicon edited by Carol Exchange, Ltd., $39.95). describes consciousness as an ac- by using art as both a subject of Gluck, the George Sansom Pro- tive, interactive process rather than study and a teaching tool (Teachers fessor of History and professor Sell Your Nonfiction Book by Craw- a passive experience confined to College Press, $23.95). of East Asian languages and ford Kilian ’62. An advice manual for the brain (Hill and Wang, $15). cultures, and Anna Lowenhaupt would-be nonfiction authors, cover- A Novel Marketplace: Mass Cul- Tsing. Gluck and Tsing explore the ing everything from developing an Once a Spy: A Novel by Keith Thom- ture, the Book Trade, and Postwar relationship between globaliza- idea to submitting manuscript pro- son ’87. Thomson’s satirical thriller American Fiction by Evan Brier ’95. tion and language by tracing the

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When Technology and Design Merge on the Roof

erial views of cities across the nation are revealing Cantor states that “a green roof is simply a ‘vegetated roof’ something rather unconventional — small patches of designated for improving the environment,” whereas green roof green on an otherwise lackluster urban canvas. technology is “a practical application of a systematic approach.” It’s not altogether uncommon to look up at towering But he also believes there is plenty of room to include aesthet- Abuildings, from the vantage of a bustling sidewalk, and observe ics, claiming that “the endeavor of creating a green roof puts stalks of bamboo swaying in a rooftop breeze or crabapple trees you on the cusp of technical knowledge and art.” showering down pink blossoms. In order to navigate these roof- With recent and perhaps a revived interest in the environmen- top gardens, landscape architect Steven L. Cantor ’73 is aiming tal and financial benefits of green roofs, Cantor has seen the ini- to assist students, professionals and the general tial question of whether to install a green public with his book, Green Roofs in Sustainable roof shift to one of what kind of green Landscape Design (W.W. Norton & Co., 2008). roof to install. He does not spend time Cantor works at Stantec Consulting in New belaboring the benefits of green roofs. York, but his green thumb propensity took root “The book wasn’t designed to preach to in Atlanta, where he grew up and where garden- the converted,” he says, “but to instead ing was considered a family affair, with provide a range of examples.” the most handsome gardens becoming a The green roofs he features in the source of neighborhood pride. He came “Case Studies” chapter are meant to to Columbia to study music and recounts show instances of innovation. Much of the being influenced by composers such as time, Cantor notes, “innovation requires a Charles Dodge ’66 GSAS, ’70 Arch. and certain level of risk,” whether it’s arrang- Charles Wuorinen ’61, ’63 GSAS. Cantor ing a variety of different colored sedum enrolled in an urban biology class at Bar- plants in a quilt-like pattern or adopting a nard taught by James Schmidt, who led PHOTO:SARAH DAWSON/ unique method of irrigation using recycled COURTESY BROOKLYN his students on field trips to Morningside BOTANIC GARDEN water for raised plant beds. Park and to New Jersey’s Pine Barrens and From the onset, Cantor dispels any Llewellyn Park. Inspired by a hands-on ap- misconceptions that green roof installation is as simple as rolling proach to learning, Cantor studied under out a mat of grass. There are many choices to consider, such as landscape architect Arthur E. Bye Jr., who taught at the Architec- methods of installation, growing medium, irrigation and, as he ture School. Cantor earned an M.L.A. in landscape architecture points out, “nothing in a manmade landscape is maintenance- from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1976, but free.” Nonetheless, there is a sense that the challenges of creat- his passion for music remained, and he earned an M.A. in piano ing and maintaining a green roof are in part the reward. There are accompaniment from the University of Colorado in 1986. no guarantees, with ever-changing variables such as plants, birds The idea for Green Roofs came about somewhat serendipi- and weather. And it’s observing these changes — watching the tously. In 2003, Cantor was teaching a community education grass grow, as they say — that makes it all worthwhile. course, “Roof Gardens and Brownstone Gardens,” jointly spon- As a green roof philosophy emerges, the very notion of “green” sored by Cooper Union and The New York Botanical Garden, is being called into question. Cantor points out the mutability when after class, a student approached him and inquired about of the term “green roof,” stating, “They aren’t green year-round. his knowledge of green roofs, which at the time he confessed In fact, in Portland, Ore., they’ve adopted the term ‘eco-roof’ in- was limited. She handed him a brochure for an annual confer- stead, and in London, Dusty Gedge [a green roof consultant and ence in Chicago, a city that boasts the most green roofs in the urban ecologist] is championing the term ‘living roof’ to highlight country, and the range of topics covered fascinated him. In par- the importance of preserving habitats for endangered birds such ticular, Cantor was interested in the rapidly evolving vocabulary as the black redstart.” pertaining to green roofs. Green Roofs combines the navigability of a textbook with the After securing the interest of his publisher, Cantor’s first artfulness of a coffee table book. The oversize format is resplen- step was to obtain a translated version of the German Forschungs- dent with nearly 300 color photos, some taken by Cantor, an gesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftsbau guidelines, experienced photographer. The elegant look of Green Roofs was which highlight terminology for green roof installation and up- crucial to the publisher because so much of green roof design is keep. Green roofs have a long history in Europe, dating back to about creating a visual experience. The book provides a launch- thatched roofs, but they are relatively new in North America. In ing point for dialogues about the future of green roof sustain- the overview, Cantor felt it necessary to expose the lay reader to ability and design to occur, where in essence, the sky’s the limit. green roof vocabulary without too much technological jargon. Julie Poole ’11 GS

evolution of specific words across attitudes toward honor during the Sachs insists that population stabi- University and professor of psychol- time and cultures (Duke Univer- second half of the 19th century lization, environmental conscious- ogy. Steele examines the dangers of sity Press, $24.95). (Duke University Press, $24.95). ness and global economic coopera- stereotype threat, a psychological tion will be essential in creating a term used to describe the anxiety felt The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor Common Wealth: Economics for a more sustainable and more pros- by members of stereotyped groups in the Construction of the Mexican Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs, perous world (Penguin, $17). when they fear that they will be Public Sphere by Pablo Piccato, asso- the Quetelet Professor of Sustain- judged according to a stereotype ciate professor of history and direc- able Development, professor of Whistling Vivaldi: And Other (W. W. Norton & Co., $29.95). tor of the Institute of Latin American health policy and management Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Grace Laidlaw ’11 Studies. Piccato analyzes Mexican and director of the Earth Institute. Us by Claude M. Steele, provost of the

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1929 he performed and administered HF is survived by a son, Robert, and his played a significant role in the propagation experiments for NBS in wife, Joan; and three grandchildren. solution to New York City’s finan- Washington, D.C., and later Boulder, Memorial contributions may be cial problems during that period. Colo. During the last six years of his made to any humanitarian purpose. Wallis married Jean Merrill in 1946; career, Silberstein did similar work she predeceased him in 2006. He is for the U.S. Army Radio Propagation 1938 survived by his daughters, Judith Agency at Ft. Monmouth, N.J. At the Richard L. Hammel, accountant, W. Fenton, and her husband, Clif- end of 1966, he retired and returned Laurel, N.Y., on August 9, 2009. ton ’70 Business, and Deborah Rei; to Boulder. Hammel was born in Woodhaven, and six grandchildren. Queens, on April 27, 1917. His 1932 family moved to St. Louis when he 1942 Gene F. Kuster, attorney and CPA, was 5 and returned East in 1928. Theodore S. Furman, retired Slingerlands, N.Y., on September His parents purchased property in aerospace executive, Saratoga, 20, 2008. Born on February 26, 1910, Laurel in November 1930 and built Calif., on October 29, 2009. Furman Richard “Dick” Silberstein ’29 in New York City, Kuster grew up a summer cottage. They lived there was born on July 23, 1922, in New in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He earned year-round beginning in 1938. York City and lived in East Orange, Richard “Dick” Silberstein, retired a degree in 1933 from the Busi- After graduating from Columbia, N.J., throughout his school years. radio engineer, Boulder, Colo., on ness School and a law degree from Hammel served in the Army dur- He earned a degree in 1947 from November 30, 2009. Silberstein was Fordham. Kuster was admitted to ing WWII. He later worked in ac- the Law School after serving in the born in New York City on Sep- the New York bar and also was a counting for a ladies’ shoe factory Army for four years during WWII. tember 18, 1906. He first became CPA in New York. For 35 years, he in Norwalk, Conn., for Long Island Furman was a Master Gunner, fascinated with radio when at 9 worked for Muir & Co., retiring as Ice and Fuel Corp. in Riverhead responsible for broadcasting early he saw equipment on a coastal v.p. in 1975. Kuster was active in and for the Otis Ford auto dealer- warning signals to ground troops in steamship. Silberstein earned two volunteer work throughout his life. ship in Quogue. Hammel was a France, Germany and Luxembourg. degrees in 1930 from the Engineer- He sang in the choirs of each church trustee of Laurel Cemetery for After law school, he relocated to San ing School, including a Ph.D. in he attended, as well as with the Co- three years, trustee and president Diego, where he met and married electrical engineering. When the lumbia Glee Club. He also played of the Laurel school board for 10 his wife, Gerry. They moved to the Great Depression began, he returned French horn in the Columbia band. years and a member of the Mat- Bay Area in 1955, where Furman to New York and took various jobs During retirement, Kuster and his tituck Rod and Gun Club for many spent 40 years in aerospace, working in the radio industry, eventually wife of 68 years, Edna (née Iverson), years. He is survived by his sister, for Lockheed, Ford Aerospace and going into business manufacturing went to more than 50 Elderhostel Bernice Duke; and cousins, Roy W. Loral. He retired at 82. Furman was radio coils and then marine radio programs in the United States, Fuchs and Edward Hammil. an avid sports enthusiast, attending Canada and England and took his first baseball game at Yankee telephones. With the United States 1939 about to enter WWII, he joined the many trips on their own to Europe, Stadium on his 10th birthday and Radio Section of the National Bureau including the Mediterranean and Clark I. Fellers, facilities director, watching Babe Ruth play, and of Standards (NBS) in Washington, Scandinavia. Kuster also loved Vero Beach, Fla., on October 27, was a Yankees fan to the end. He D.C., and provided HF radio propa- playing golf. He is survived by his 2009. Fellers was born on October coached several Little League and gation forecasts and predictions. At wife; son, Gordon, and daughter- 15, 1917, in Warren, Pa. He earned a Senior League teams in Sunnyvale night, Silberstein taught courses in in-law, Sandi; daughter Carole B.S. and a Ph.D., both in mechani- and Saratoga. Furman served on electromagnetic theory and commu- and son-in-law, James Wortley; cal engineering, in 1940 and 1941, the Zoning Board and Planning nications laboratory at The George daughter Joan and son-in-law, Mark respectively, from the Engineering Commission in Sunnyvale. He is Washington University. After WWII, Weintraub; two grandchildren; and School, and an M.B.A. from the survived by his wife of 57 years; and five great-grandchildren. Memorial University of Rochester. Fellers was daughters, Teri Howes, and Sue. Obituary Submission contributions may be made to Co- an executive at Eastman Kodak lumbia University Athletics, PO Box of Rochester, N.Y., for his entire Allan L. Goulding Jr., physician, Guidelines 1523, New York, NY 10277-1937. business career. He is survived by Billings, Mont., on September 8, Columbia College Today a son, Gary; daughter, Gail Fellers 2009. Goulding was born in Cam- welcomes obituaries for 1937 Milliman; four grandchildren; and bridge, Ohio, on November 29, College alumni. Please include George E. Saffa, teacher and school five great-grandchildren. Fellers 1920. A graduate of Weill Cornell the deceased’s full name, administrator, Green Valley, Ariz., on was predeceased by his wife, Sylvia. Medical College, his residency date of death with year, class September 8, 2009. Raised in rural training was done in New York year, profession, and city western Pennsylvania, Saffa played 1940 City. Goulding married Natalie and state of residence at football at Columbia and eventually Gordon T. Wallis, retired execu- C. Sundberg in 1944, and the time of death. Biographical earned a Ph.D. at Teachers College. tive, Chicago, on October 23, 2008. family moved to Billings, Mont., information, survivors’ names, Saffa and his wife, Ruth (née Lulk- Wallis was born in Salt Lake City following his residency training so address(es) for charitable en), resided in New Jersey, where on August 15, 1919. While at he could join The Billings Clinic. donations and high-quality he had a long career in high school Columbia, he was captain of the Goulding established the first photos (print, or 300 dpi jpg) education and administration. Retir- fencing team and president of his isotope laboratory in Montana in also may be included. Word ing in the early 1970s, the couple fraternity. Wallis joined the Irving the Deaconess Hospital prior to limit is 200; text may be traveled a bit and moved to Arizona, Trust Co. in 1940, where he rose being recalled by the Navy for two edited for length, clarity and settling in Green Valley for the last to become chairman of the board years. His specialty was internal style at editors’ discretion. 35 years. They were active in the and CEO in 1970. He held the latter medicine and his main interest at Send materials to cct@ Southern Arizona AARP “55 Alive” position until his retirement in the time of retirement was geriat- columbia.edu or to Obituaries driving program, and Saffa enjoyed 1983. During that time, Wallis was rics. Goulding was on the board Editor, Columbia College developing the college scholarship a member of the boards of Sterling of The Billings Symphony, was an Today, Columbia Alumni program for the local Elks chapter. Drug, NYU, J. Walter Thompson, elder of The Presbyterian Church Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC In recent years, he was still striving FW Woolworth and GTE. In 1975, and served on the Presbyterian 4530, New York, NY 10025. to perfect his golf game. Saffa was he chaired the steering committee Church Foundation Board. Other predeceased by his wife in 2005 and of major New York banks, which interests were birding, fishing,

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her husband, David, Rosemary Kirk and her husband, Brian, and Arnold Beichman ’34, Political Analyst and Journalist Joanne Murphy and her husband, John; son-in-law, James Enos; sister, Arnold Beichman ’34, ’67 GSAS, the University of Calgary, the Mary Dunnigan; and 18 grand- ’73 GSAS, a conservative political University of Massachusetts children. Curd was predeceased analyst, journalist, author and pro- and Georgetown. He authored by a daughter, Cecilia Enos, and a fessor, died on February 17, 2010, five books, most famously Nine brother, Eugene. in Pasadena, Calif. He was 96. Lies About America, tackling 1945 Beichman was born on May what he saw as liberal myths 17, 1913, to Ukrainian Jewish defaming American history. Jay J. Pack, financial v.p., New York immigrant parents. A child of Beichman was known for a City, on July 31, 2009. A native the Lower East Side, he “read buoyant, infectious energy. “He New Yorker, Pack attended Horace Mann School for Boys and majored his way through the local public was younger,” John Podhoretz in English and economics at the library” in high school, accord- wrote in a recent tribute in Com- College. He trained as a stock- ing to a May 2003 profile in photo: edward w. souza/stanford mentary. “Younger than I at 23 broker at Francis I. DuPont & Co. The Weekly Standard. When he when he was 72 … younger than and retired in spring 2009 from came to the College, he wrote Partially as a result of guilt I at 47 when I last saw him in his Burnham Securities, where he was for Spectator and became its over not being able to serve 97th year.” When being profiled a v.p. He also held the position editor in 1934. his country in WWII, Beichman for CCT, Beichman was “asked of president of the Chelsea Block Beichman spent the first half spent much of the ’50s and if he was tired an hour into a Association. Pack wrote several books, including How To Talk to a of his life in journalism, working ’60s covering war zones all recent phone conversation,” and Broker; authored numerous maga- for The New York Times and at 90, “Beichman roared, ‘Tired? over the world. Then, at 50, he zine articles on stocks, bonds and Newsday, eventually landing an did an about-face and left jour- I’ve just begun to fight!’ ” investing; and was a correspondent editorship at PM. He was fired nalism to return to Columbia. “He mixed a lot of virtues for TravelSmart, a monthly publica- in 1946 “in a struggle over the “My greatest lesson,” he told that seldom go together in the tion. He is survived by his children paper’s turn toward the radical CCT in 2004, “is that everybody same person,” Christopher from his first marriage, to Sheila left,” according to an obituary should go back to school when Caldwell wrote of him in a trib- Pack: Jeffrey, and Barbara Ann Wi- in the Times. they’re about 50, because they’ll ute in the Standard, “authority sott; three grandchildren; his wife, An unwavering foe of com- discover a world they did not and curiosity, ambition and gen- Nancy Dunnan; and sister, Ethel Schneider. Memorial contributions munism, Beichman went on to know existed.” He earned a mas- erosity, brilliance and humility. may be made to NYU Medical freelance for the American He was a battler who had the ter’s in 1967 and a doctorate in Center, Office of Planned Giving, Federation of Labor for 15 years, 1973, both in political science. happiest of happy marriages, One Park Ave., 17th Fl., New York, according to a January 2004 CCT Beichman had a prominent a drawer-of-lines-in-the-sand NY 10016. profile. “I wanted to undertake career as an analyst and an with a gift for friendship.” this fight against communism, academic. At the time of his Beichman is survived by Harold Samelson, research which I thought was the most death, he had been a research his wife, the former Carroll scientist, Berkeley Heights, N.J., serious problem we had,” Beich- fellow at the Hoover Institution Aikins; sons, John and Charles; on September 15, 2009. Samelson man said. “So I went to work for since 1982, and a columnist for daughter, Janine ’69 GSAS, ’74 was born in Manhattan on June 23, 1923, and raised in the Bronx. trade unions, which I regarded The Washington Times since GSAS; six grandchildren; and He was a Pulitzer Scholar at the — particularly the AFL — as the one great-grandson. 1986. He had taught at the College, was elected to Phi Beta strongest fighters against it.” University of British Columbia, Jesse Thiessen ’11 Arts Kappa and received a B.A. in 1947. Samelson earned an M.A. and a Ph.D., both in chemistry, in reading, music, gardening and escort USS Howard F. Clark. After Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 20, 1948 and 1952, respectively, from travel. Goulding is survived by his the war, Billipp joined Armstrong 1924, Curd earned a degree in 1946 GSAS. He spent most of his career wife; daughter, Christine Dryden, Cork’s industrial division. For 25 from P&S. He served in the Navy as a research scientist in the field and her husband, Gerald; sons Al- years, he and his family moved all and then worked for the former of optics, working on the science lan and his wife, Kathy, and Jeffrey over the country. In 1969, Billipp Pittsfield General Hospital and St. underlying lasers and television. and his wife, Georgann; stepson, resigned from Armstrong Cork to Luke’s Hospital. Continuing with Samelson was awarded several Jeffrey Betters; five grandchildren; move his family to Peterborough, their merger as Berkshire Medical patents in these areas. He worked and three great-grandchildren. Me- and he bought Wilton Pressed Met- Center, he retired in 1992 after 36 for several companies, including morial contributions may be made als. Billipp was a longtime member years of practice. Following retire- Bell Labs, Allied Signal, Arco Solar to a charity of the donor’s choice or of the Monadnock Indoor Tennis ment, Curd worked in the surgical and GTE Sylvania, and served on to the Nature Conservancy, Billings Club, the Monadnock Country department at the Albany Veterans several presidential commissions Clinic Foundation or First Congre- Club and the Peterborough Rotary Administration Hospital. He had involving the export of technol- gational Church Foundation. Club. Survivors include his wife been chief of staff of Berkshire ogy. He was a professor of physics of 65 years; sons, J. Andrew, James Medical Center, chief of staff of at the University of Lowell in 1943 and Peter; daughters-in-law, Susan, the former St. Luke’s Hospital, a Massachusetts. Samelson delayed Gordon K. “Bill” Billipp, retired Diana and Karen; seven grandchil- trustee of Berkshire Medical Center his studies from 1942–46 to serve salesman, sales manager and dren; and two great-grandchildren. and president of the Massachusetts in the Army Signal Corps and business owner, Peterborough, Billipp was predeceased by his Chapter of the American College was sent to the European Theater N.H., on June 28, 2009. Billipp oldest son, Norman, who was of Surgeons. Curd also was an during WWII. He is survived by was born in Port Chester, N.Y., killed in action in Vietnam in 1969. associate professor of surgery at his wife of 49 years, Bernice Slaff; April 28, 1922. A WWII veteran, he Memorial contributions may be the University of Massachusetts daughter, Elizabeth Cuthill; son, joined the Naval Reserve and after made to the Mayhew Program, PO Medical School. He is survived by Matthew ’85; and four grandchil- graduating with a B.A. in business Box 120, Bristol NH 03222. his wife, the former Patricia McIn- dren. Memorial contributions may administration was commissioned erney; daughters, Kathleen Walsh be made to the Columbia College as a Navy ensign. In May 1944, Bil- 1944 and her husband, William, Patricia Fund, Columbia Alumni Center, lipp married Elizabeth A. Whitesell Clement C. Curd Jr., retired Sudek and her husband, Thomas, 622 W. 113th St., 3rd Fl. MC 4530, and in June shipped out to the Pa- general and thoracic surgeon, Marianne Oliva and her husband, New York, NY 10025, or www.col- cific Theater aboard the destroyer Lenox, Mass., on August 28, 2009. Samuel, Madeline Phelps and lege.columbia.edu/giveonline.

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1947 Other Deaths Reported

Columbia College Today also has learned of the deaths of the following alumni. Complete obituaries will be published in an upcoming issue, pending receipt of information and space considerations.

1929 Irwin W. Smith, retired insurance agent and teacher, Wallingford, Conn., on February 18, 2010. 1933 John R. Phelps, music teacher, Sun City Center, Fla., on March 4, 2010. 1937 Lloyd D. Flint, physician, Myrtle Beach, S.C., on February 2, 2010. 1938 Alan D. Kandel, retired social work executive, West Bloomfield, Mich., on August 21, 2009. Kandel earned a degree in 1942 from the School of Social Work. alvin K. Link, retired executive, Los Angeles, on February 23, 2010. Link entered with the Class of Peter F. Brescia ’47 1938 but earned a B.S and an M.S. from the Business School in 1938 and 1939, respectively. 1939 Merrel P. Callaway, clergyman, Charleston, S.C., on January 31, 2010. Peter F. Brescia, retired diplomat, 1940 Willard N. Failing, ophthalmologist, Utica, N.Y., on May 25, 2009. Failing earned a degree in 1943 Alexandria, Va., on January 17, 2010. from P&S. Brescia was born in Solofra, Italy, on 1941 April 14, 1923, and educated in New Edward J. Amontree, retired dentist, Sarasota, Fla., on February 4, 2010. Amontree earned a degree York City public schools. He served in 1944 from the Dental School. in the Navy from 1943–46, participat- James W. Cronenberg, engineer, Midland, Texas, on January 1, 2010. Cronenberg entered with the ing in the D-Day invasion at Omaha Class of 1941 and then became a member of the Class of 1942 at the Engineering School. Beach as Radioman Second Class t. Hall Keyes III, pet resort and training center owner, Ridge, N.C., on January 6, 2010. aboard the USS PC-568 as part of 1942 the 12th Fleet. Brescia was awarded David P. Harrison, retired market analyst, Madison, Wis., on February 3, 2010. Harrison earned an the American Campaign Medal, the M.A. in economics in 1949 from GSAS. European-African-Middle Eastern george T. Laboda, director of media, Lake Worth, Fla., on February 26, 2010. Laboda entered with Campaign Medal with one star the Class of 1942 but earned a degree in 1942 from the Business School. and the WWII Victory Medal. He sam Pisicchio, retired Coast Guard member and employment consultant, Napa, Calif., on earned a degree in 1950 from SIPA, February 24, 2010. began his career as a diplomat with 1943 the State Department and in 1953 Henry Corey, attorney, Falmouth, Mass., on February 27, 2010. joined the United States Informa- 1944 John J. Donohue Jr., retired market research manager, Hamden, Conn., on February 4, 2010. tion Agency (USIA). A graduate of henry K. Griesman, wholesale fabric supplier, New York City, on March 30, 2010. the National War College, Brescia received the USIA Meritorious frank C. Marshall, Rye, N.Y., on February 8, 2010. Honor Award. Following his 1980 1945 Bruce L. Schalk, retired accountant, Whiting, N.J., on March 4, 2010. retirement, he traveled extensively 1946 Wayne J. Hallenbeck, with his wife of 62 years, Mary, retired insurance executive, Mansfield, Ohio, on February 10, 2010. and enjoyed swimming, tennis, Jack L. Orkin, retired attorney, Miami, Fla., on January 15, 2010. Orkin earned an M.S. in 1946 squash and reading about history. from the Business School and a J.D. from the Law School in 1949. Brescia is survived by his wife; sons, 1949 Donald J. Goodell, international trademark attorney, Chappaqua, N.Y., on February 16, 2008. Peter and his former wife, Lorraine, Christopher and his wife, Carol, clyde R. Hampton, environmental attorney, Aurora, Colo., on February 14, 2010. and Andrew and his wife, Dawn; william G. Ivie Sr., retired retail store manager, Cartersville, Ga., on February 10, 2010. daughter, Regina M. Holleb and her Eric C. Munro Jr., El Paso, Texas, on March 6, 2010. husband, David; nine grandchil- 1950 dren; five nieces and nephews; and Alfred Arees, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., on March 25, 2009. brother, Roland, and his wife, Mary. william T. Dameron, Mount Vernon, Ohio, on December 14, 2009. Memorial contributions may be James L. Garofalo, physician, Essex Fells, N.J., on February 26, 2010. Garofalo earned a degree made to Barakat, 552 Massachusetts from the School of Public Health in 1953. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139. 1951 John W. Garrett, transportation safety research expert, Asheville, N.C., on January 14, 2010. Paul J. Mishkin, attorney and pro- 1953 Jay A. Levine, professor, Chicago, on February 22, 2010. Levine earned an M.A. in English and fessor, Berkeley, Calif., on June 26, comparative literature in 1954 from GSAS. 2009. Born in Trenton, N.J., to Polish 1954 Thomas J. O’Grady, surgeon, Toledo, Ohio, on February 28, 2010. immigrants, Mishkin earned a B.A. from the College and a J.D. in 1950 larry Pine, Boca Raton, Fla., on January 25, 2010. from the Law School. He was on george M. Thomas, geologist, Houston, on January 30, 2010. President Gerald Ford’s short list of 1955 Supreme Court candidate appoint- James C. Gherardi, Great Neck, N.Y., on March 4, 2010. ments and served as special counsel Jerome Rosenthal, physician, Great Neck, N.Y., on June 25, 2009. alongside Archibald Cox and Jack bede C. Sullivan, library cataloguer, Washington, D.C., on February 22, 2010. Owens arguing before the U.S. Su- 1957 preme Court for the Regents of the Albert J. Anton Jr., oil analyst, Louisville, Ky., on April 10, 2010. University of California in the 1978 george Dickstein, Bronx, N.Y., on February 3, 2010. Bakke case. Mishkin joined the UC 1959 M. Marvin Finkelstein, Sharon, Mass., on March 6, 2010. Berkeley, Boalt, faculty in 1973 after teaching at the Penn Law School for 1960 Michael D. Hein, teacher and librarian, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., on February 7, 2010. Hein earned an 22 years. He was a visiting profes- M.S. in 1974 from the School of Library Service. sor at Colorado, Duke, Michigan 1961 Robert L. Trelstad, physician, Princeton, N.J., on February 15, 2010. and Texas Law Schools, as well as at 1987 Albert J. Weisel, freelance writer, New York City, on February 27, 2010. Haverford College. Mishkin was on the faculty of the Salzburg Seminar

MAy/june 2010 39 obituaries columbia college today in American Studies and was a lace; sister-in-law, Shirley; and two 1962 Lions Club. Lipari is survived by fellow at the Center for Advanced grandchildren. Conrad M. Sherman, stockbroker, his partner, Cheryl Carter; children, Study in the Behavioral Sciences Robert, Joseph and Katherine, and 1950 Howell, N.J., on September 24, 2009. and at Wolfson College, Cambridge Born in Brooklyn, Sherman lived in their mother, Cynthia Lipari; sister, University. He also served on the Paul McCoy, businessman, Dune- Marlboro, N.J., for 20 years, before Louisa (Martin) Berger ’66 Barnard; U.S. permanent committee for the din, Fla., on October 27, 2009. McCoy moving to Howell nine years ago. sister-in-law, Bobbie Harlem; and Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. was born on January 28, 1928, in At the College, he was an econom- a number of nieces and nephews. Mishkin was predeceased by his Ventnor City, N.J. He graduated ics major and wrote for Spectator. He was predeceased by a brother, wife of 28 years, Milli, and is sur- from the College with honors and Sherman earned a J.D. from Penn Joseph. Memorial contributions vived by a son, Jonathan Westover. earned a degree in 1952 from the and served in the Coast Guard. He may be made to the Lions Club of Business School. McCoy moved to Oneonta, PO Box 575, Oneonta, NY 1948 was a first responder at Seabrook Dunedin in 1971. He was a member Village in Tinton Falls. He also 13820. Kenneth J. Sabella, retired busi- and commodore of the Coast Guard coached and was an umpire for the 1977 ness executive, Bloomfield, Conn., Auxiliary, an FSU Golden Chief and Marlboro Little League for more on September 24, 2009. Born on an avid football fan. He also enjoyed than 10 years. Sherman is survived Bruce W. Flannery, director of June 6, 1926, in Brooklyn, N.Y., boating and fishing. McCoy was by his wife, Ingrid (née Chait); sons, development and marketing, activ- Sabella served in the Navy, sta- a businessman in Dunedin for 30 Blake, and Tyler and his wife, Cath- ist, Exton, Pa., on August 14, 2009. tioned in the South Pacific, during years and a pioneer in the agricul- erine; brother, Julius; three nieces; Flannery grew up on Long Island WWII. After the war, he earned a tural field, developing carboxylate and a nephew. and earned a degree in political phi- B.A. from the College and a B.S. technology. He was predeceased losophy from the College. His early from Cornell. Sabella became a by his wife, Tue, and is survived by 1965 career was as a copywriter, copy successful businessman, working his sons, Paul and John; daughter, Roger V. Wetherington Jr., journal- reader, and marketing and public as partner and CEO of Eastern Nancy Hamilton; five grandchil- ism professor, Jamaica, N.Y., on relations consultant in New York Food Services. He enjoyed skiing, dren; and one great-grandchild. July 25, 2009. After working as a and Philadelphia. His latter career tennis, boating and especially golf. reporter and editor at the New York was with organizations devoted 1952 During his retirement, he served Daily News, Wetherington began his to helping people in need. Most as a Eucharistic Minister at The Donald J. Engel, retired controller, teaching career in California at Long recently, Flannery was director of Church of St. Timothy, served the Hopewell, N.J., on September 11, Beach State University, earning his fund development and marketing elderly with the Meals on Wheels 2009. Born in Pelham, N.Y., Engel mass communications/journalism for the Maternity Care Coalition. program and tutored inner-city lived in New Brunswick, N.J., be- Ph.D. at the University of Southern He was a founding member and youths. Sabella is survived by his fore moving to Hopewell 41 years California. He was a journalism president of the Pennsylvania Coali- wife of 61 years, Marjorie; and ago. He was a controller for Sub- professor at St. John’s University in tion of AIDS Service Organizations. children and their spouses, Ken- urban Transit in New Brunswick Queens. Wetherington taught ad- Gov. Tom Ridge named him to the neth and Valerie Sabella, Brien and for 40 years, retiring in 1992. Engel ditional classes on Staten Island and Inter-Governmental Council on Linda Sabella, Casey and Patricia was a member and past president spent a year in Kazakhstan teaching Long-Term Care, and Gov. Ed Ren- Sabella, Kerry and Sheila Sabella, of Branford Electric Railway As- on a Fulbright Scholar fellowship. dell appointed him to the Depart- and Ben and Molly Kate (Sabella) sociation, operating as the Shoreline He also was a part-time editor ment of Health Transition Team. He Mosher; 25 grandchildren; and two Trolley Museum, in East Haven, on the weekends at The New York also was named to the state’s HIV great-grandchildren. Conn., and a member of the Electric Times. Wetherington is survived by Planning Council, which he served Railroaders Association of NYC. his wife, Andra Miller; son, Brady; as co-chairman of for six years. 1949 He is survived by many friends sister, Janice Evans; and cousin, Ora Flannery was a technical adviser Alvin M. White, professor emeri- and associates in the transportation Katherine Smith. on the 1993 film Philadelphia. He tus, Claremont, Calif., on June 2, industry. Engel was predeceased by created a consulting practice assist- 2009. Born in New York in 1925, a sister, Janet Walker. Memorial con- 1967 ing nonprofits in fundraising, grant White was a Navy radio technician tributions may be made to Branford John A. Shayner, college v.p., Hack- writing and creating public-aware- aboard a ship during WWII. After Electric Railway Association, 17 ettstown, N.J., on September 23, ness campaigns and was director of the Battle of Okinawa, he was sent River St., East Haven, CT 06512. 2009. Shayner was born in Ipswitch, development for Calcutta House. to Officers Training at Columbia. England, on August 27, 1945, and Flannery was interested in historic 1958 He then obtained a master’s from spent his childhood in Hazlet, N.J. preservation and served as chair- UCLA and a Ph.D. in mathemat- William G. Covey, physician, Eas- He earned a Ph.D. from Stanford man of the West Whiteland Histori- ics from Stanford in 1961. In 1962, ton, Conn., on May 28, 2009. Covey and held numerous titles during cal Commissions. He is survived by White moved to Claremont and was born in New York City and his 30 years at Centenary College: his partner, Otto Perrone. joined the faculty at Harvey earned a degree in 1962 from P&S. v.p. for global initiatives, v.p. of 1986 Mudd College, where he taught He was a member of the Glee Club administration, director of interna- for more than 35 years. He was at Columbia and sang with the Blue tional programs, acting president, Marshall B. Wright, finance execu- an active participant in the life of Notes. Covey served as a captain in professor of English and executive tive, Williamsburg, Va., on Septem- the colleges and town, frequently the Army during the Vietnam War assistant to the president. Perhaps ber 10, 2009. Wright was a native mentoring students from Harvey as a physician and was in private his greatest contribution to the of Williamsburg. After graduating Mudd and other colleges and practice as a hematologist in Strat- college was in the creation of Inter- from the College, he worked with serving several terms as president ford, Conn., for 36 years. He was national Programs in 1992. Shayner the private banking division of of the Claremont chapter of Sigma the medical director at the Jewish is survived by a brother, Nigel; and the Bank of New York, continuing Xi and of the local chapter of the Home for the Elderly in Fairfield for his companion, Jadwiga (Spodaryk) his career as a v.p. with JP Morgan American Association of Uni- the past four years. Covey was ded- Lon. Memorial donations may be Chase in New York. He returned versity Professors as well as one icated to his field and loved travel, made to the Dr. John A. Shayner to Williamsburg 4 ½ years ago. term as co-president of the Faculty opera, learning to speak Italian and Scholarship Fund, c/o Centenary Wright was an avid reader and an Senate. White helped create the spending time with his large family. College, 400 Jefferson St., Hack- animal advocate. He is survived by joint chaplaincy at the colleges. He is survived by his wife, Bonnie ettstown, NJ 07840 or the National his parents, Margaret and George; He spent the majority of his career Meller Covey; children, Anne, Cancer Research Center. sister, Sherwood Wright Crawford; exploring, discussing and writing David and his wife, Robin, Aaron brothers, Wayne and Andrew; about creative, innovative and and his wife, Cinthia, Michael and 1968 and several nieces and nephews. humanistic approaches to teaching his wife, Alec, and Laura; and seven Michael S. Lipari, business execu- Memorial contributions be made to and learning. White is survived grandchildren. Memorial contribu- tive, Oneonta, N.Y., on August 9, the Heritage Humane Society or the by his wife of 62 years, Myra; sons tions may be made to The William 2009. Lipari was born on October 30, Williamsburg Public Library. and daughters-in-law, Louis and Grayson Covey, MD Memorial 1946, in Baltimore. He was the presi- Lisa Palladino his wife, Susan Miller, and Michael Fund c/o The Jewish Home for the dent of Empire Abstract of Oneonta and his wife, Auneea; brother, Wal- Elderly of Fairfield. and was a member of the Oneonta

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Columbia College Today into politics in hopes of becoming bia Graduates Dinner. Columbia. I thank Phill and Kit for Columbia Alumni Center a boxing judge and getting to go Those of you who read the story keeping in touch with me. 25 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 to the fights for free. Instead, in the of Marine captain Jim Shanley’s As I submit these notes on 40 New York, NY 10025 1950s, his combination of Columbia heroism in the 1940 Class Notes March 1, our men’s basketball team [email protected] and boxing impressed the Jack column in September/October will has finished its home schedule English Democratic ‘machine’ on probably remember that Jim was with a last-second 56–55 win over George Leonard ’67, ’68 GSAS, ’72 Long Island. Jack had once knocked an active member of our class, not Penn and a 67–52 loss to Princeton. GSAS wrote in with a remem- out a committeeman at a Young of the Class of ’42 as noted. Columbia once again finished in brance of his father, L. Charles Democrats meeting, Pop proudly Art Weinstock and Suzanne and the bottom half of the Ivy League, “Charlie” Leonard ’37, ’39L: said. Charlie and Jack were early Bob Dettmer represented the class below Cornell, Harvard, Princeton “People who were at Columbia Kennedy men, and when my new at the Westchester alumni dinner and Yale, tying with Brown and with L. Charles ‘Charlie’ Leonard ‘Uncle’ Jack English became Bobby in Rye, N.Y. Penn for fifth place at 5–9. In recent ’37 may well remember him, par- Kennedy’s presidential campaign I had the pleasure of taking my years, several classmates have ticularly if they were athletes. He manager, Charlie became one of family of 26 to Club Med in Cancun asked me why Columbia has not made Spectator by accomplishing Bobby’s lawyers. For a few hours during Presidents Week. We also been able to do better in the two the odd feat of earning four letters after the California primary, they celebrated there the early decision major sports that attract the most in one year, though there were only were all on their way to the West admission of the oldest of my 10 interest and attention from alumni: three seasons. Classmates would Wing — until the tragedy. great-grandchildren to some insig- football and men’s basketball. most likely remember him, how- “Charlie left the Party dur- nificant school called NYU. We have had success in many ever, as ‘Charlie the Boxer,’ the 145- ing the Jimmy Carter years, and A group of us still have our other sports, including Ivy League lb. all-Columbia University boxing with bipartisan support, became irregular luncheons in NYC. To Championships in women’s soccer, champion. As you remember, box- Regional Chief Administrative join, please call Len Shayne at men’s and women’s fencing, men’s ing was such a big sport in the ’30s, Law Judge for New York, New 212-737-7245. and women’s cross country, men’s Columbia even had its own boxing Jersey, Puerto Rico and also at tennis and golf, and women’s trunks, with Columbia logo. Charlie times, New England, supervising archery. Our wrestling and swim- KO’ed the Business School’s champ up to 140 judges. Among Charlie’s Melvin Hershkowitz ming teams also have had respect- for the title, ‘spilling him around the crucial decisions, still cited, were 3 Regency Plaza, Apt. 1001-E able, if not championship, per- canvas,’ Spec reported. one requiring a religious family to 42 Providence, RI 02903 formances. Consensus opinion is “Charlie’s grandson and my son, allow its dying child modern medi- 42 supportive and complimentary to [email protected] Andrew Charles Leonard ’13, wrote cal care (law students used to call our football coach, Norries Wilson, to Housing and to Dean Michele him for details) and another reclas- The great author Louis Auchincloss, and our men’s basketball coach, Moody-Adams to be sure he got sifying thousands of impoverished a loyal Yale alumnus who died Joe Jones, who are popular with to live in John Jay Hall, where his Hmong refugee soldiers who had on January 26 at 92, called his last and respected by their players. grandfather, father and uncle, Rob- fought on our side in Vietnam so novel The Last Of The Old Guard. A perennial issue is the difficulty ert Andrew Leonard ’71, had lived. that they received much-needed Our own great Class of 1942, “Old our coaches face in recruiting tal- My middle name is Jay because my benefits accordingly. His decision Guard,” has many surviving active ented student-athletes to come to mother waited on the steps of John probably ran 20 pages, but when members, and I hear from them Columbia. Financial aid packages Jay so often for my father that she he heard about the situation, Pop frequently. Recent communications are roughly similar throughout became curious about who John Jay had only said, ‘They were on our have come from Robert Kaufman the Ivy League, though Harvard, had been. You’ve heard of dorms side, right? Got to take care of in Scarsdale, N.Y.; Dr. Gerald Princeton and Yale, our three named after people, but I am a them.’ Charlie Leonard’s decisions Klingon in New York City; Don wealthiest schools, may be able to person named after a dorm. on all things were like his straight Mankiewicz in Monrovia, Calif.; provide more in grants and direct “Anyway, Dean Moody-Adams right cross. Dr. William Robbins in Grand financial aid than Columbia. Our very kindly wrote Andrew back “If any of his old friends have Island, Fla.; Dr. Bernard Small in facilities are certainly adequate, if and said she was forwarding his memories of Pop, I would be grate- Montauk, N.Y., and Tenafly, N.J.; not superior to, other Ivy schools. letter to Housing. Andrew got into ful if you would e-mail me at GL@ and Dr. Arthur “Wizzer” Wel- Wien Stadium/Kraft Field is an John Jay. He is third-generation Co- georgeleonard.com. lington in Elmira, N.Y. I have also attractive and comfortable site lumbian and third-generation John “Hoping this finds Charlie’s old had notes from, and telephone for watching football games. Our Jay. There have now been Leonards friends in good health.” conversations with, a few surviv- gymnasium is not great, but Ivy in John Jay Hall for 76 years. ing spouses of our deceased Old League gyms elsewhere also are “After Columbia, Charlie gradu- Guard classmates, including Regina not elaborate or much larger than ated from Columbia Law in 1939, Robert Zucker Albohn, widow of Arthur Albohn; ours. The separation of our main married Adele Shapiro — Mom 29 The Birches Marlene Green, widow of Gerald campus from Wien Stadium is remembered double dates with his 41 Roslyn, NY 11576 Green; and Avra Mark, widow often cited as a significant negative classmates all her life — and went 41 of my Livingston Hall roommate factor in recruiting, with the bur- [email protected] and lifelong best pal, Dr. Herbert den of added transportation time Dr. Stan Gotliffe passed away in Mark. I also have heard from the for team meetings and pre-game Class Notes are submitted by January. Stan and his wife, Ruth, two sons of our late classmate Don practices. Unfortunately, the reali- alumni and edited by volunteer had been cherished regulars at our Dickinson, who live in Las Vegas. ties of New York City geography, annual Arden House reunions, and Older son Phill is in the real estate and a necessary large financial class correspondents and the from 1994–2008, Stan was our class business in Nevada and California, investment, make a solution to staff of CCT prior to publication. correspondent. He had practiced and younger son Kit is the golf pro this dilemma a distant hope, with Opinions expressed are those of psychiatry in NYC, and he and at the Las Vegas Country Club. Phill no resolution on the immediate individual alumni and do not Ruth moved to South Carolina after and Kit are loyal to the memory horizon. reflect the opinions of CCT, its he retired. Our sincere condolences of their late father’s happy days at I welcome further comments class correspondents, the College to Ruth. Columbia before he was seriously from interested classmates and or the University. Cynthia and Arthur Friedman wounded (he recovered) as an other alumni about this issue. were omitted from the list of those infantry officer in Europe in WWII. Meanwhile, we continue to hope who attended the Society of Colum- Don was one of my good friends at for more success in all of our Ivy

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League athletic contests, and hospital there, and it would seem Marian, as professor of integra- “My time at Columbia began especially for Ivy League cham- he has never stopped traveling tive biology at UC Berkeley. This in early September 1941, after I pionships in football and men’s since. He has been to sub-Saharan requires them to take turns each hitchhiked from upstate New York basketball. Africa six times, to the Congo weekend flying between Burbank to Morningside Heights. I’d been Kind regards and good wishes twice and has lectured in three and Oakland (“Southwest Air accepted as a Charles Hayden to all. countries of the Near East. There loves us”). Scholar in, what I later learned, was time between journeys abroad, Arne and Marian consider was the largest incoming freshman however, to practice medicine on themselves confirmed, if trans- class to that point. As one of those G.J. D’Angio the staffs of the Redwood City and planted, Easterners. “I think New 625 frosh, I muddled through the Department of Radiation Stanford Hospitals in California, York is still the most exciting city confusions of freshman orienta- 43 Oncology attaining professor emeritus status in the world,” he said. But with tion. I made visits to various 43 Hospital of the University at the latter. The author of medical so much air time along the Pacific offices, attended lectures regarding of Pennsylvania, Donner 2 articles, he also has written sev- corridor, they find they no longer pre-med subjects and classes, and 3400 Spruce St. eral books including Cook to Your have the energy to wander East. received a room assignment (729) Philadelphia, PA 19104 Heart’s Content … on a Low-Fat, “My last visit was for my 50th P&S in Livingston Hall. I also endured [email protected] Low-Salt Diet with two co-authors, reunion in 1996,” Arnold said. the wearing of the blue beanie and The Physician and the Slave Trade: David V. Becker, professor of the occasional hazing by upper- Ensign Leininger’s recollection in John Kirk, the Livingston Expeditions, radiology and nuclear medicine classmen. I remember welcoming the March/April Class Notes that and the Crusade Against Slavery in at Cornell, died on January 31 in talks, in MacMillan, by President former University President Nicho- East Africa, and The Last Expedition: Manhattan. He was an expert on Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of las Murray Butler (Class of 1882) Stanley’s Mad Journey through the diseases of the thyroid and led the 1882) and Dean Herbert Hawkes. shook hands with all ’43 gradu- Congo. National Cancer Institute team It did not take long before I entered ates prompts this inquiry. Some John Vicario writes from South to assess the potential hazards of into the swing of freshman life. background: The 2006 biography Carolina. Originally Class of ’44, radioactive iodine released by the “As I look back, I am amazed at Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing he graduated in ’43 because of 1986 Chernobyl explosion. David the wonderful scholarship offered Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas the wartime speed-up. A stint in was awarded a White House Cita- by my teachers. Their ability to Murray Butler, by Michael Rosen- the Navy during the war years tion for this work. tweak my interest in history and thal, the Roberta and William was followed by work at Western literature and current events has Campbell Professor in the Teaching Electric (now Lucent) that he found stayed with me over the years. REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 of Literature Humanities, paints rewarding and interesting. John Attending classes taught by, to Alumni Office Contacts Butler as a complex, multi-faceted and his wife now enjoy the great name a few, Highet, Casey, Car- Alumni Affairs Jennifer Freely person. He was scholarly and au- outdoors in their lakefront home man, Hayes, Wingert, Barzun and [email protected] thoritative, yet petty, bigoted and on Lake Keowee. It is not far from many others was very special to 212-851-7438 vain. He saw to it, for instance, that Clemson, which affords cultural as that young student. Their teaching Development Paul Staller his was always the longest entry in well as collegiate sport and edu- methods instilled a lifelong inquisi- [email protected] Who’s Who. He was a remote pres- cational activities. John adds that tive thirst for knowledge. 212-851-7494 ence to me as an undergraduate, he objects to some of Columbia’s “Aside from scholarly pursuits, but in my young eyes, very much positions, such as the banning of a Columbia College Today there was a light side to Columbia. the image of what a university military presence on campus. 45 Columbia Alumni Center We played touch football on South president should be. I never re- Some sad news: 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Field, listened to jukebox music in member seeing the man in person; Domenick A. Luppino, a retired 45 New York, NY 10025 the Lion’s Den with a Coke and a I wasn’t there on graduation day businessman, Glen Rock, N.J., died [email protected] date, and attended the Newman to shake his hand as Ensign states on March 25, 2009. Club socials and those wonderful he did. I was in medical school by Alvin S. Yudkoff, Water Mill, Our 65th reunion is right around the Varsity Shows. There were the won- then, having left Columbia after N.Y., died on May 27, 2009. He was corner, Thursday, June 3–Sunday, derful bull sessions at all hours of my junior year. The question that a writer and filmmaker and the ’43 June 6. Alumni Reunion Weekend the night and the snowball fights comes to mind is this: Do any of CCT class correspondent from July will be filled with events around around Van Am Quad. A noon you remember seeing or talking to 2003 to March 2006. Columbia and New York City, chapel service, led by Chaplin Butler during your college years? Connie Maniatty, Columbia including opportunities to engage Knox, and the weekly subway ride If so, send me a note (suitable for University Athletics Hall of Fame in cultural happenings as well as a to Baker Field for football were all publication) describing the occa- athlete in two sports, and a philan- Saturday class dinner with the Class part of the Columbia experience. sion and what interaction there thropist and prominent member of of 1950 followed by a champagne And I must add the off-campus life might have been with him. the business world, died on January toast and dancing under stars on that comprised the Greek fraterni- A portrait of my wife, Dr. 8. Connie was our longtime Class Low Plaza. Please consider coming ties. No wonder Columbia is so Audrey Evans, was unveiled on Agent, and for several years, his to catch up with old friends and special to so many! November 30 and hangs in the name could be found at the head make new ones. “Finally, a personal note. When I main auditorium of the Children’s of our Class Notes. The notable If you haven’t registered, do entered Columbia, I had very little Hospital of Philadelphia. Hers is career of this loyal Columbia alum so now: http://reunion.college. money. My scholarship only cov- the only woman’s portrait in that is detailed in the March/April issue columbia.edu. ered tuition. However, the school august hall. Obituaries (www.college.columbia. Dr. Walter Holland of Lynch- provided me with opportunities Dan Liebowitz writes on his edu/cct/mar_apr10/obituaries0). burg, Va., sent in this touching to earn my board and keep. On return from Central America. remembrance: “As I prepare to campus, I worked in the kitchens He is a deserving member of the attend the reunion in early June, it beneath John Jay Dining Hall, in the Explorer’s Club and a Fellow of Henry Rolf Hecht seems absolutely unbelievable that Fine Arts Department preparing the Royal Geographic Society. A 11 Evergreen Pl. 65 years have flown by. So much slides and in the student laundry. New Yorker, Dan’s travels started 44 Demarest, NJ 07627 has transpired in my personal life, Jobs off-campus included a walk-on as a child in Europe before return- 44 in our nation’s life and in the state role in a Broadway show and as an [email protected] ing to the States for his pre-college of the world during these years! usher at Baker Field. These work school years and then Columbia. Dr. Arnold B. Scheibel still is on Now as I search my memory banks experiences helped prepare me for He enlisted in the Army after Pearl the job as Distinguished Professor to reflect on these fading years, the real world. After being called Harbor and as part of the Army of Neurobiology and Psychiatry at I’d like to share with you a few of to active duty in July ’43, I was for- Specialized Training Program was UCLA. He teaches grad students these memories. Many of my recol- tunate in that the Navy reassigned sent to NYU School of Medicine and med students as well as pre- lections may parallel experiences me back to Columbia in the V-12 as an army private, first class. Dan meds, along with continuing his of your own. There’s one thing we program. Thereafter, my financial eventually served in Germany research at UCLA Medical Center. all share in common: We attended needs for tuition, room and board as chief of psychiatry at a station Also still at work is Arne’s wife, a great school, Columbia! were resolved by Uncle Sam.

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“These thoughts precede my know they supported a successful e-mail addresses, at the top of the players still asleep. journey back to Morningside and accomplished career, albeit in column. Would the elusive yellow Heights in June. Columbia molded a small way, he responded: “I don’t rail I’d found a week before me into a better person, and I owe think the help your class gave was appear again? I wanted to the school a profound debt that so small. I couldn’t have built the Bert Sussman see this bird another time, will never be fully repaid.” house without the foundation you 155 W. 68th St., Apt. 27D wanted to get to know him, Dr. Joseph Stein retired in Octo- laid for me.” 47 New York, NY 10023 had come at first light and ber after 53 years as a neurologist. Jo- George Levinger e-mailed 47 walked out here, jumping [email protected] seph graduated from NYU Medical from his home in Amherst, Mass. ditches, pushing through the School and served in the Air Force George is professor emeritus of Robert Pease wrote: “Here are the reeds to reach the same place during the Korean War. He worked psychology at the University of first three pages of my short story where my rail had leapt up, at numerous hospitals in Topeka, Massachusetts. His specialty is so- collection. The title story is ‘Invis- flown maybe fifteen feet, Kan., before joining the staff in 1990 cial psychology with an emphasis ible Bounds.’ I have self-published dropped into a runnel and at the Cotton-O’Neil Clinic, from on group behavior. Recalling his 17 books, and more than 43,000 disappeared. which he retired. Joseph also served undergraduate days, George asks copies of these have now sold. As But just before the first on the medical advisory commit- when freshman beanies were no for my novel O.U.I. (Operating Un- catbird was ready to speak, tee of the Topeka-Shawnee County longer worn, and when was the der the Influence), I [have received] out of the vapors around Health Department for 27 years. last Frosh-Soph Rush held. Does comments from eminent people me stepped a young doe. I’d The Class of ’45 is still looking anyone know? Ahh, memories, who have had high praise for it. been motionless a long time. for a class correspondent to write memories. “If one of your readers could Did she think I was some a bimonthly column for Columbia George’s interest is understand- ever get an established publisher to fixed part of the marsh, a College Today. If you want an open able. On the morning of the rush, take on this book, they could make tree trunk, a post? That was platform and a chance to reconnect he learned that during the previous a fortune and be doing something unlikely. I saw her nostrils with classmates, please contact night, members of the freshman of real worth to society. Police of- quiver. She knew I was hu- Associate Editor Ethan Rouen at class had kidnapped the president ficers assure me that where it is in man. She knew humans were the postal address at the top of of the sophomore class. George, use in high school English classes, trouble. Our eyes met and in the column, at ecr2102@columbia. v.p. of the sophs, suddenly found it is saving lives. Is anything more hers I read a question. A child edu or at 212-851-7485. Until then, himself in charge and had to pre- important than that?” would have looked at me the please send notes about your life, vent a freshman victory. Although I would add that no less than same way, wanting to ask but thoughts, travel, family and experi- outnumbered, General George’s Calvin Plimpton, president of Am- unable to find the words. ences at Columbia to Ethan at the sophs won the day. Another battle herst College in the 1960s, made For a long moment we same postal or e-mail address. of Morningside Heights won by a special trip to Robert’s home to stared at each other. Then, the “good guys.” personally convey his praise of still not moving, I made a Lawrence Fuller, writing from O.U.I. sound. I don’t know quite Bernard Sunshine his home in Santa Cruz, Calif.: “It Here is the title story of the short what it was – a low sort of 46 20 W. 86th St. was my desire to attend Columbia, story collection: almost whistle, not a question New York, NY 10024 as did my grandfather and mentor, — whhoooo. 46 Francisco Escobar, who had gradu- “Invisible Bounds” She stepped toward me. [email protected] ated in 1889 from the School of Half an hour before sunrise. Not ten feet separated us. Kudos to ’46 from Cambridge Mines. He was later consul general I was standing in the marsh, Her ears, ears that could hear University. This is the story: from Colombia in New York.” a mile from the road, on a a meadow vole’s scratch in My class files revealed that in Larry was with Lockheed Sunday morning, waiting. Mist the earth thirty feet away, 1953, we funded a scholarship for Marietta for 35 years and retired hung in the air around me, twitched and pointed this an entering freshman, Richard as manufacturing manager of the moist tattered veils of night- way and that, independent D. Gooder ’57 from Cincinnati. I Astronautics Division. During his time turning slowly, the quiet of each other. Her white tail was curious to learn more about career, he was involved with mis- total, perfect, all nocturnal crea- flipped once. him, and my search led me to sile defense and programs for the tures gone to burrows, roosts As softly as I could, I said, Cambridge where I caught up with Mach 2 Fighter F1045, the Patrol and grassy tangles, daytime’s “Come a little nearer.” him. Bomber F2V ASW and the T33A Richard entered Columbia as Jet Trainer. a pre-med, changed his major to Larry cites an important influ- English and art history, gradu- ence in his life — working with Columbia School Designations ated magna cum laude and won the Japanese for 12 years, learning In Class Notes, these designations indicate Columbia the Kellett Fellowship for study at about their culture, history and degrees from schools other than the College. Cambridge. There, at Clare College, way of thinking. An interesting he earned B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. challenge for Larry was guiding Arch. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation degrees and soon after joined his Kawasaki and Mitsubishi factories Arts School of the Arts wife on the faculty. to fabricate and assemble aircraft to Barnard Barnard College He initiated a course in American rigorous Lockheed systems, designs Business Graduate School of Business literature, is a principal founder and engineering. CE School of Continuing Education of the American M.Phil. degree Commenting on our government at Cambridge and is a founding today, Larry decries the bickering Dental College of Dental Medicine member of The Cambridge Quarterly, and discord, and hopes our children E The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and a distinguished academic journal. and theirs can repair the fabric of Applied Science Richard wrote: “I could not our country. GS School of General Studies have gone to Columbia without Golf is one of Larry’s loves, and GSAS Graduate School of Arts and Sciences a scholarship, and my years there for 15 years, he was a marshal at J Graduate School of Journalism provided the foundation of a good the AT&T Pebble Beach National L School of Law and happy life. I do very much Pro-Am Golf Tournament. That is Nursing School of Nursing hope that you and your classmates indeed rubbing shoulders with the P&S College of Physicians and Surgeons will not feel that their generosity stars. For other fun, add gardening, PH Mailman School of Public Health was misplaced or wasted; and I sailing, tennis and travel. thank you for giving me the op- John McConnell sends greetings SIPA School of International and Public Affairs portunity to acknowledge it.” from Post Falls, Idaho, with a new SW School of Social Work When I told Richard how e-mail address: [email protected]. TC Teachers College pleased the men of ’46 would be to Please note my new postal and

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She seemed to carry still not another? I can’t tell you. I Monthly meetings at the famed gee. He went to George Washington the faint spotting of the fawn. only know that the way that Arizona Inn began and guest speak- H.S. in Manhattan at night, working Her coat was as if moth- she looked at me was the way ers started with the then-president days as a copy boy at International eaten in places. She was very that you look at someone of the University of Arizona, Peter News Service, and was drafted young, alone. She looked as who has touched you and Likins, who had previously been into the Army in 1943 right out of if she hadn’t eaten well, and made you vulnerable, lighted provost and professor at Columbia. high school. Sent to England after yet … a place within you unknown We also had that dynamic educator training in the combat engineers, “… a little nearer.” until then, stirred an unan- Michael Crow, then-Columbia pro- Peter was set to take part in the Ready to spring into the air swerable need. vost and now president of Arizona Normandy invasion but got orders and be gone, poised, totally And the last time I went State. Arthur Levine, then-president the day before to report to a new as- alert, nonetheless, she came there I knew she was gone, of Teachers College, spoke and was signment with Army intelligence in within my reach. knew I would never see her followed by Barry Rosen, famous London. He hitchhiked to London, Cautiously, only millime- again. Swallows were there for surviving the U.S. Embassy his orders in his pocket, and found ters at a time, I raised my and blackbirds and jays takeover during the Carter presi- that a mechanical perusal of IBM right arm, let my hand ap- but my doe was gone, gone dency. Other speakers included personnel punch cards had re- proach her wet black muzzle, forever. I cannot go back there Arizona University Professor Jona- vealed he spoke German. He spent left it cupped, extended, palm now. than Overpeck, one of the world’s the rest of the war as an interrogator up where she could sniff it, leading experts on climate change. in France and Germany, interrogat- sense the me in it. Ed McAvoy reported on his These outstanding speakers ing German prisoners of war “of all Then she raised her head Tucson activities some time ago. drew 125–150 members each month ranks.” again to see my gaze and let Columbia had taken on the man- and produced excellent local news- Among his assignments was me place my hand on the rus- agement of Biosphere 2 in Oracle, paper coverage for Biosphere2. interrogating members of the set fur of the side of her neck. Southern Arizona, in 1996. The As a result, improved accep- German V-1 and V-2 rocket pro- I felt her flesh tremble previous operators had gener- tance of the project occurred and grams. “There were some real bad under my touch, felt her ated a very negative reputation that continues to this day, although Nazis,” Peter remembers. Among warmth, sensed something locally — and scientifically — and Columbia has discontinued its interrogators’ duties: political passing between us from one the reorganized facility under CU connection and the University of screenings to help determine to the other, both ways, and influence needed some good new Arizona is now in charge. which of the rocket science experts was frightened. and positive local public relations would be recruited to work in the The rail flew up out of a activity. United States. Peter recalls the ditch beside where the doe The closing down of the first Durham Caldwell boastfulness of the general, Walter was standing. I saw the white Biosphere2 was for several reasons, 15 Ashland Ave. Dornberger, who was Wernher von patch in the wing before the one of which was a serious prob- 48 Springfield, MA 01119 Braun’s superior and who couldn’t bird dropped into a stand of lem with the generation of oxygen 48 stop bragging about the superior- [email protected] phragmites and vanished. within the enclosed domes 18 ity of the German rocket programs. When the rail shot up months into the two year “sealing” [Editor’s note: CCT thanks Dur- He later worked in the U.S. for under our feet, the doe went of the domes in this new world. ham Caldwell for his more than Bell Aircraft. Peter interviewed into the air like a tennis ball There were serious arguments seven years of service as a class him years later while doing an bouncing. Airborne, she between those sealed into the unit correspondent. Until a successor is article on helicopters for National soared over the creek and and their outside scientists. Also, in place, please send news to cct@ Geographic and found that he had would have been out of my some personal strife for those, I be- columbia.edu, subject line “1948 “become quite civilized.” sight in seconds, but at the lieve eight, persons in the enclosed Class Notes,” or to Ethan Rouen, Busy with interrogation duties, edge of a cluster of black al- environment. The local press had Associate Editor, Columbia College Peter never saw combat. But his ders she stopped and turned, not treated the effort gently. Today, Columbia Alumni Center, outfit accumulated four combat looked back at me. I could Ed visited the Biosphere2 cam- 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, New stars, each worth five points swear that in her glance there pus with friend and previous dean York, NY 10025.] toward discharge, helping Peter was something akin to long- of the Mailman School of Public get back to the States and out of the ing, or was it just the faint Health, Dr. Robert Weiss, and they One of the joys of being a class Army in January 1946. The good stirring in me of a feeling I reviewed the situation with the correspondent is picking a name at marks he’d gotten on New York’s couldn’t define that made me then-president of Biosphere2. It random out of the class directory, Regents Exams while in high imagine this? was decided that the project would placing a phone call and coming school helped him gain admission Seconds later, I stood be helped by the backing and sup- up with a classmate on the other to Columbia. alone in the marsh, but life port of a local Columbia alumni end of the line with a very interest- Peter started at Columbia in in the grasses, the cattails, group. There was a small, active ing story to tell. Take Peter White February 1946 under the G.I. Bill. the creek bed was waking. group in Phoenix, but that was too of Washington, D.C. When I talked He signed up for 22 credits during Soon insects, a marsh wren, distant. Weiss generously offered with him in late February, the each of his five regular semesters redwings, song sparrows, Ed’s services to establish such a nation’s capital still was suffering and 14 during each of two sum- a trio of green-winged teal concerned group. Ed investigated from the effects of the winter’s mer sessions to graduate in 2½ rocketing by and of course and found more than 800 alumni unprecedented snowfalls. Peter, years with the Class of ’48. And all crows without number, were from various Columbia schools who lives on a side street, said the while, he was commuting 90 filling the morning with their within a 50-mile radius of Tucson. a plow came through once and minutes a day each way from his voices. Sunlight came over Mailing labels were quickly sent cleared enough of the road to allow mother’s home in Queens Village the tops of the tupelos to the from the New York Alumni Office one-lane traffic. If cars came at each on the Long Island Railroad and east, swallowed the mists, and local recruitment work began. other from opposite directions, it the IRT. In an understatement, he and a breeze came bearing all Within a few weeks Ed, ably posed quite a dilemma. “It’s been a says, “I didn’t have much time for the mingled odors of marsh assisted by Pam Parry ’71 GSAS, real mess,” Peter told me. extracurricular activities.” much and shrubs blossoming ’73 LS, “signed up” more than Peter is retired from National But Peter has some fond mem- and spring’s freshness. 100 paying members from 20 CU Geographic after being a writer there ories of Columbia’s academics. I’ve been back there a schools. for 37 years, covering “all kinds of “Contemporary Civilization and dozen times. Twice that same College alumni included Adam subjects.” These subjects included Humanities were very valuable,” doe came forth from the early Weissman ’85, Dr. Benjamin Senitzky tropical rainforests (“I visited all the he says. “I had some good profes- dawn, as I waited, and stood ’43, John Piazza ’99, Sarah Palestrant major ones in the world”) and the sors,” he adds and mentions Jacques close, but never again as ’03, Kimberly Hans ’89, Kun Sun opium poppy. During the 1960s, he Barzun ’27, Mark Van Doren, soci- close as that first time when I Kim P’02, Dick Kelly ’63, Dr. Richard made four trips to Vietnam. ologist Paul Lazarsfeld (“a pioneer placed my hand on her. Kanter ’56, Dr James Hays ’54, Sal Peter was born in Vienna and in polling”) and Raymond Weaver, How do I know it was she, Anzalone ’54 and Ed McAvoy. came to the United States as a refu- specialist in Melville novels. Peter

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did so well that he was allowed to Joe has done guardian ad litem of the Arizona chapter of the been a pleasure to work with pa- take graduate courses while still work for Vermont’s Family and Dis- American College of Cardiology tient and understanding CCT edi- working toward his B.A. trict Courts since 1988 and is a com- and president of the Association tors Lisa Palladino, Ethan Rouen, And one more Columbia con- munity member of the Institutional of University Cardiologists. He Laura Butchy and Rose Kernochan. nection: Peter’s only son, Norbert Review Board of the Southwestern has been, or still is, a member of If you’d like to be the next Class ’87, is a member of the first class Vermont Medical Center. the editorial/scientific boards of of ’48 correspondent, contact Ethan that included women. As a member of the gay commu- 14 cardiovascular journals and has Rouen, Associate Editor, Columbia Another classmate with fond nity, Joe has been active for the last been a consultant and reviewer for College Today, Columbia Alumni memories of Barzun is Joseph 15 years in the Vermont Freedom to 26 publications. Frank authored Center, 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, Schaaf of Bennington, Vt. He got Marry Task Force. Although he 158 abstracts, 287 articles in peer- New York, NY 10025; ecr2102@ to know Barzun after being a violin remains single, he is proud of Ver- reviewed journals and more than columbia.edu; or 212-851-7485. student of Barzun’s then-wife, mont’s role as the first state in the 50 book chapters. He is co-editor, As for me, I’m not exactly going Mariana Lowell, at Bennington union to approve civil unions for with Dr. Gaetano Thiene, of a book out to pasture. I’ll be continuing College. It was she who got him same-sex couples and the legisla- on arrhythmogenic right ventricu- my work as op-ed columnist for interested in entering Columbia in ture’s more recent action in overrid- lar dysplasia/cardiomyopathy. the weekly Ludlow (Mass.) Register 1944. Joe later spent several sum- ing a gubernatorial veto to legalize Maybe we could talk Frank into as well as continuing to actively mers with the Barzun and Lowell same-sex marriage in the state. presenting a clinic for fellow Class promote my novel, Tumultuous families at Cotuit on Cape Cod, Frank Marcus has been profes- of ’48 M.D.s at our next reunion. Affairs: Uncertain Politics and Unlikely where he was a companion for the sor emeritus in cardiology at the Charles Schultz of Los Angeles Romance During a Turbulent Time, couple’s children and performed University of Arizona’s College of might have some things to teach us 1964–1975. Classmates are invited other duties. Medicine in Tucson since 1999. But in the financial area. He’s “enjoying to check it out at www.amazon.com Joe’s fondest recollections of that hardly means he’s been sitting an active and fairly conventional re- or at my own rinky-dink Web site, Columbia stem from singing with around taking it easy. From 2001– tirement” after a career in insurance http://tumultuousaffairs.home. the Columbia University Choir, a 08, Dr. Frank was principal inves- with two years out for Army service comcast.net. professional choir of 40 men and tigator of a study sponsored by in Virginia during the Korean War. women who sang every day but the National Institutes of Health, Charles earned a degree from GSAS Saturday at services in St. Paul’s “The Multidisciplinary Study of in ’49 and worked in New York John Weaver Chapel. Dr. Lowell Beveridge Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular for Great American Insurance Co., 2639 E. 11th St. was choir director. The group Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia.” eventually becoming corporate 49 Brooklyn, NY 11235 specialized in Renaissance music A grant application to study the planning v.p. He moved to L.A. in 49 [email protected] and, according to Joe, was the genetics and molecular causes 1970 after a corporate takeover of best choir in New York City at the of the disease is pending with Great American, joined Farmers Following the March/April notes, time. Among the performances he NIH. Frank received the Boston Insurance in 1974 and later became your correspondent has been remembers is singing for Winston University School of Medicine’s Farmers’ CFO in charge of all engaged with more of Paul Auster Churchill when the wartime British Distinguished Alumnus Award in investment and financial operations ’69’s work — The New York Trilogy leader visited Columbia to receive 2003 and the Laennec Master Clini- with “heavy involvement” in merg- first, and now Leviathan. It is a an honorary degree. “I guess you cian Award of the American Heart ers and acquisitions. thoroughly absorbing pursuit, and might say we were the royal enter- Association’s Council on Clinical Since retirement, Charles has the end of each book whets one’s tainers,” Joe says. Cardiology in 2005. His area of been a director of a number of appetite for the next. Chapel speakers in those days expertise spans clinical cardiology, smaller insurance companies and Please don’t read the following included Reinhold Niebuhr and cardiovascular pharmacology and charitable organizations. He lives as cynical, nevertheless, I must Paul Tillich (“his daughter was clinical electrophysiology. in the Hancock Park section of Los confess that I have much more time in the choir”) from nearby Union Frank earned a master’s in Angeles in a New York-style 1929 to read Paul’s work in as much as Theological Seminary. “It was a physiology at Tufts, then gradu- apartment that he says is referred I have no reading matter from any great experience intellectually as ated cum laude from B.U. Medical to as “the Dakota of the West.” of you. I will maintain the positive well as musically and socially,” says School in 1953. His internship, resi- Charles is a widower with three attitude that informs me that you Joe. “An unforgettable experience.” dency and early cardiology train- grown children, but his retirement are all very busy in pursuits of con- He also remembers great Co- ing were at Peter Bent Brigham hardly seems “conventional” the sequence and pleasure and have no lumbia classes with Barzun, Lionel Hospital in Boston, followed by way he describes it: “Travel exten- time to write or e-mail or call with a Trilling ’25, Raymond Weaver further cardiology training and sively, especially to Europe, most sharing for this column. and George Nobbe, along with promotion through the ranks to recently in Paris to maintain my Try to find a minute or two violin teacher Herbert Dittler and chief medical resident, chief of French. Visit New York several between “now and then,” and let Paul Henry Lang, Otto Luening cardiology and assistant professor times a year to see friends, Colum- us hear from you. and Douglas Moore of the music of medicine at the Georgetown bia games, do opera, theater and Wishing you all a summer of department. (Are there any among University Hospital and George- museums. Usually see [Athletics delight. us who don’t remember Moore’s town University Medical Service Director] Dianne Murphy and other “Guide to Musical Strategies: From in Washington, D.C. In 1969, Frank friends in the athletics department.” REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 Madrigal to Modern Music”?) became professor and chief of A personal note: This is my swan Alumni Office Contacts Joe is retired after a career as a cardiology at Arizona and was song as CCT’s Class of ’48 corres- Alumni Affairs Jennifer Freely classical music teacher, including promoted in 1982 to the endowed pondent. I’ve had the privilege of [email protected] stints as music director at the Putney chair of Distinguished Professor of chronicling classmates’ accomplish- 212-851-7438 School in Vermont and the Cam- Medicine. ments, activities and memories for Development Paul Staller bridge School in Weston, Mass. He His initial research interests seven-plus years. I figure it’s time to [email protected] also played the violin or viola in a were directed toward the under- give someone else — maybe you? 212-851-7494 number of groups including Sarah standing of the pharmacology of — the opportunity. Caldwell’s Opera Company of such cardiac drugs as digoxin, It’s been a rewarding experience Mario Palmieri Boston, the Boston Philharmonic, amiodarone and propafenone. renewing acquaintances with old 33 Lakeview Ave. W. the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Later, Frank turned his attention friends from Morningside days, 50 Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567 Vermont Symphony Orchestra and to the investigation of cardiac some but not all of whom claimed 50 [email protected] Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, arrhythmias. And he introduced to remember me, plus meeting and the Wantastiquet Chamber Or- radiofrequency energy for cardiac scores of other ’48ers and learning Classmates: Here is the program chestra assembled by Irene Serkin, ablation procedures. about their experiences. our reunion committee has ar- wife of pianist Rudolf Serkin, who Frank’s accomplishments in his I owe a debt of gratitude to my ranged for our 60th reunion. was one of many notable soloists chosen field have not been lost on predecessor, Ted Melnechuk, for Friday evening, June 4: Our first who performed with his wife’s his professional colleagues. He his wise counsel and continuing Class of 1950 event will be a cock- group. was founder and first president occasional contributions. And it’s tail reception in the Trustees Room

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2014. Although highly recruited by tion, leads writers’ workshops and Division I schools and several in is writing a novel, which when fin- the Ivy League, Zack chose to play ished will be titled Diana Unchaste. baseball for the Lions and Brett Who has five sons and 13 grand- Boretti, whom he called “my kind children, and lives in Poughquag, of coach!” N.Y.? It’s Walter E. Kurkela. Walt So what is so special about this says his house is on land that was all-star pitcher from the Rye Coun- once owned by Franklin D. Roose- try Day high school? Well, since he velt, Jr., but the estate was eventu- was 7, he has had blood sugar five ally developed into Dalton’s Farm, times the normal number. Aside a community of private homes in from the daily blood sugar tests and Duchess County. As for his Colum- the pump on his hip, Zack shows bia career, Walt started at Notre almost no indication he lives with Dame before coming to Morning- type 1 diabetes. Whether pitching side Heights as a sophomore. or playing an infield position, he He enjoyed intramural sports, says, “I don’t think about it most of including basketball. Walt earned the time. It gets on the back burner an M.B.A. from Harvard and then most of the time.” True, he has spent three years in the U.S. Navy broken a couple of insulin pumps Supply Corps in a career that took (at $5,000 apiece) while sliding into him from Newport to Bayonne George Koplinka ’51, CC ’51 secretary and class correspondent, pre- a base. So now Zack removes the to Athens, Ga., before duty on a sented a Columbia College shirt and cap to incoming freshman baseball pump when hitting and keeps it destroyer tender. Returning to pitcher Zachary Tax ’14. on when pitching. That’s his strong civilian life, Walt joined Campbell suit. Josh Thomson, sports writer Soup Co. and then went into the for The Journal News, discovered automobile business with stints at of Low Memorial Library. The re- brutally graphic look into every how Zack honed his side-arm Lincoln-Mercury and nine years mainder of the evening, we are free detail of an infantryman’s existence delivery throwing tennis balls with Ford Motors in Dearborn, to do as we please; you can arrange in that historic battle. “Cricket,” as against the front stoop at home until Mich. He did some work for TWA a dinner party with whomever you Roland was known on Okinawa in he developed the ability to throw and Xerox before acquiring a travel wish and go wherever you wish. order to prevent the enemy from three different pitches from two agency in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Saturday, June 5: Pre-noon hours divining his identity as an officer, different arm angles. No wonder Seventeen years later, Walt retired are left free of organized class activi- tells it like it was. he has posted program records for at 60 to enjoy the good life … and ties so that you are at your leisure to Ted Reid, whose medical spe- strikeouts during his high school ca- play a lot of bridge! socialize with friends, go sightsee- cialty is psychiatry, has brought his reer. Could there be an Ivy League A couple of reminders: Next ing, attend Dean’s Day lectures views on therapy, and how he works baseball championship for the Light year will be our 60th reunion, (registration required) or just relax. as a therapist, to public attention Blue next year? Yes! [See photo.] and we have to get serious about Noon: Class of 1950 luncheon. with his book, Pilgrims, Paths and “The last 20 years have been the some special planning. Contact me Dine in the ambiance of a Floren- Progress: Toward a Comprehensive best years of my life!” That’s a direct via e-mail ([email protected]) tine palazzo in the magnificently Psychotherapy. The book will be of in- quote from Stanley M. Freid when with ideas and suggestions about refurbished Casa Italiana. terest not only to therapists but also he recently spoke about finally how you would like to participate After luncheon: Glenn Lubash to laypersons interested in psycho- having opportunities to do what on the planning committee for and Ray Scalettar, who are nation- therapy and how people change. It he wanted to do. Born in Brooklyn Alumni Reunion Weekend 2011, ally renowned in medicine and stimulates the reader to think about in the shadow of Ebbets Field, Stan Thursday, June 2–Sunday, June 5. who are still practicing, will give what it is about the therapist that remembers the times when many Finally, don’t forget to send us their perspectives on a subject may contribute to effective therapy. of us Boy Scouts could bring 50 lbs. in your contribution to Columbia of immediate interest to all of us: The book can be purchased online of old newspapers to the field in College Today. It’s the best alumni health care. Glenn and Ray will lead at www.1stbookstore.com/treid. the mid-1940s during WWII and sit publication in the Ivies, so let’s us in a discussion in which all can html. In February, Ted addressed for free in the bleachers watching keep it that way with some join. Topics will include the recently the annual meeting of the Fellows of “retreads” play baseball. Years financial support from CC ’51. You highly publicized question of medi- the American Group Psychotherapy later, Stan attended Stuyvesant H.S. may give online at www.college. cal care for veterans. Association. like so many CC students of the columbia.edu/cct/giving or mail Evening: Class of 1950 dinner in Joan and Al Schmitt took a trip ’40s. He pursued the professional a check, made payable to Columbia Butler Hall in an upper-floor room to Europe. One of their stops was option program in the College and College Today, to the address on the overlooking South Field. Auschwitz, which Al described as received B.A. and a B.S. degrees. masthead. June 4 is not far off as you read “a very sobering” experience. Continuing his education in night this. If you have not yet registered Sadly, we have two deaths to school for 13 years, Stan eventually for our Class of ’50 events, do report: Dr. James L. Garofalo, of was awarded a master’s in statistics Sidney Prager so now: http://reunion.college. Essex Fells, N.J., on February 26, and a professional engineering 20 Como Ct. columbia.edu. 2010, and Frank P. McDermott of degree, which he dubbed the “poor 52 Manchester, NJ 08759 We have two recently published Agawam, Mass., on December 11, man’s Ph.D.” Although the Navy in 52 [email protected] books to call to your attention. 2009. Obituaries will be published Bayonne, N.J., and Rayco, a manu- Roland Glenn has recounted his in a future issue. facturer of automotive upholstery, “Welcome sweet springtime. We experiences as an officer with got him started, it was IBM that pro- greet thee with song.” Do you the Seventh Infantry Division in vided a long business career in 10 remember singing that in second the Battle of Okinawa, the final George Koplinka technical and marketing positions, grade? I do. What about “In Spring, campaign of WWII. In his book, 75 Chelsea Rd. mostly in its Trade Corporation. a man’s fancy turns towards The Hawk and the Dove: World War 51 White Plains, NY 10603 Stan retired in 1988 and eventu- thoughts that a woman has had II at Okinawa and Korea, Roland tells 51 ally fell in love with Connie, bring- all year.” That is pretty old also, [email protected] about not only what it was like in ing together his three and her three however the change from winter to the foxholes and rice paddies, but Here’s an inspiring story about a children. They reside in Yonkers, spring is dynamic, powerful, uplift- also his postwar struggles with young man from my hometown of N.Y., and travel a lot with at least ing and most welcome. This past what is known today as PTSD, or White Plains, N.Y. Zachary Tax, an one major splurge every year. They winter has been one of the worst post-traumatic stress disorder. 88-mph pitcher, received his accep- have been to Mexico, France, Italy, on record around here and makes Having read the book, I can tell tance letter from Columbia College Indonesia, Thailand and so on. Stan people question global warming. you that it is an unstinting and and will enter with the Class of is president of his condo associa- The scientists have come up with a

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different term — “climate change” Ann because she had been born Then I spent six more years as a was enough, but I’m not finished — and this will allow greater pa- and raised in Saranac Lake, N.Y., temp specialist in transistor design, yet. Having turned 80 with all rameters for all kinds of variations just 10 miles from Lake Placid, but working at companies such as this behind me, I’m heading into to fit within the concept. the question was, could someone IBM, National Cash Register, GE, my fourth life experience with the Spring still is the great gift of re- who was born in Brooklyn, raised Hazeltine, AMF and Phillips Elec- founding of Efficient Energy De- birth. The warmed breezes against in Queens, went to college in tronics (where I designed my first vices, a company that will focus on one’s face and the perfumed smell upper Manhattan and worked in high-voltage power supply for the developing efficient methodologies of budding flowers creates and lower Manhattan adapt to rural surveyor moon space program). or hardware in these trying times. releases a wonderful energy that Vermont? I got a job with an insur- Then, in 1962, I started a second God knows where this will lead. lies dormant during cold, gray and ance agency in Hanover, N.H., life experience and founded my Thank you, Columbia and all my snowy time. right across the river, and have en- first electronics company, Venus former employees. May God bless Yes, indeed, welcome sweet joyed every day. Not too involved Scientific, a Farmingdale, N.Y., you all! Stay tuned.” springtime. with Columbia since the move, but manufacturer of miniature milita- Sergius S. Kuharsky is enjoying “I am Bob Hartman, who I have served on the boards of the rized high-voltage power supplies. retirement in Jackson, N.J., and wrestled for four years and am an Independent Insurance Agents of Very shortly thereafter, I was joined enjoys traveling to visit seven Alpha Delta Phi member and a Sa- New Hampshire, Woodstock ABC by my Columbia compadre Remo grandchildren (including Simon, chem. If there is anyone out there House, Hartland Public Library Stella ’52E as e.v.p., a job he held son of Paul Kuharsky ’91, ’93J) and who is reading this who wrestled and the Insurance Agency in New for many years. I’m saddened to two great-grandchildren. or is an ADP, please get in touch Hampshire. say Remo recently passed away Howie Hansen sent this about with Sid Prager, who will give you “I have two daughters and two after a long illness. His many Wesley W. Bomm of Medford, N.J.: my e-mail address. teenage grandsons in the area, so contributions helped me spend “The passing of Wesley Bomm on “This summer, while camping I get all the help I might need in more time working on my designs, September 28, 2009, at age 78 was on a cross-country trip, I stopped maintaining the property, and I which consisted of high-voltage reported in the January/February in Springdale, Mont., to visit Steve can just relax and enjoy myself. It’s gating electronics that helped open issue of Columbia College Today. Reich ’53 and his wife. What a really a nice atmosphere all four the night vision market developed “Wesley and his wife, Gloria, wonderful house and ranch they seasons. Well, the fifth season, mud by Fort Belvoir’s night vision met in high school, married and have, along with riding horses on season, can be troublesome. If they labs. This success enabled us to had five children. She died in a which you could see the ranch. It ever complete the improvement develop and manufacture reliable tragic car accident in which Wes was a very nice visit, as they are program and pave our roads, it and sometimes complex miniature survived. Wes attended Columbia, great hosts. Also, my wife, Nancy, will be much easier to get around. high voltage power supplies for earning a National Scholarship. He and I had dinner on January 9 in Other than that, we don’t have to many U.S. major military aircraft was a key member of our freshman Toledo with Rose and Danny See- look for gators or poisonous snakes such as the B-2, F4, F16, F18 and and varsity football teams and a mann before the Seemanns headed on our golf courses, we don’t have hundreds of others. In 1982, we member of Columbia freshman for their place in St. Petersburg, Fla. tornados and by the time a hur- had 300 people working for us and basketball team, but subsequently We, however, will go northward ricane makes it this far north, it’s the company was sold to Ferranti decided against playing two sports toward Sault St. Marie, Mich., to for fear of negative impact on cross-country ski for a few days. grades. In October 2009, he was We began cross-country skiing inducted into Westwood H.S.’ 25 years ago. I discovered it was Filippo Galluppi ’52 founded Efficient Energy Devic- inaugural Basketball Hall of Fame. almost as good as wrestling was es, a company that will focus on developing efficient “After graduation, Wes was a and much more practical. By the Navel Officer in supply corps. His way, Danny was a member of the methodologies or hardware. business career included Ford 1951 basketball team that was re- Motor Co., RCA, [and] Coopers cently inducted into the Columbia and Lybrand Partner Management University Athletics Hall of Fame. usually just a rain storm. Of course, Electronics, a major British defense Consulting, before returning to Well, Sid, if I get any more contacts we do occasionally get a nor’easter, manufacturer. That’s when I got RCA and retiring. I’ll write you.” but that just turns the area into a married to my wonderful wife, “Wes was a loyal teammate who Roy Lutter writes: “OK, 58 winter wonderland. Mary. It was about time! In 1985, attended most Columbia football years in 100 words or less. First “I feel sorry for those stuck in I retired from Venus Scientific. I and athletics-related functions, job after graduation was at Best & Florida, Southern California, Ari- felt I had gotten a virtual Ph.D. including numerous off-campus Co., which was at 51st Street and zona, etc. What can those poor guys in the starting and running of a ‘rendezvous.’ Fifth Avenue. Didn’t really like the do? Play golf every day of the year, technically successful high-tech “The last 10 years of Wes’ life work, but I did meet the woman lie on the beach, have a Christmas electronics operation. I loved it. were shared with his significant who became my wife and put up pool party? It’s sad. Best wishes.” What a feeling! other, Sally Rettew. They shared with me for more than 51 years. So, Filippo Galluppi writes: “The “Now starts the third life experi- a residence in Medford. She is an overall, it was a positive experi- life of a Columbia graduate, Class ence. In 1990, I became a founder impressive person and became a ence. In February 1953, I got a job of ’52. I feel as if I’ve already lived of a second company after all but most welcomed addition to our as a binder clerk with an insurance three separate lives after emerging losing my shirt in the 1987 stock gatherings. brokerage firm at the foot of Wall from Loyola H.S. in New York City market crash. This time it was “In the last 1½ years of Wes’ life, Street. In what was definitely not a and enrolling in Columbia College Ultravolt, designed to be highly he struggled through significant meteoric rise through the ranks, I in 1947. In this first life experience profitable by delivering a truly health problems, and in telephone became v.p. and director in January after taking Columbia’s five-year standard miniature high voltage conversations with friends/fellow 1966. While working there, I tried professional option course (I’ve product to the industrial markets. teammates, he couldn’t say enough to stay close to Columbia. I served never regretted taking that extra The field was full of companies about his relationship with Sally as class fund chairman for some year, it really helped) I graduated that were willing to build anything and how helpful she had been time, probably because no one else as an electrical engineer with B.A. the customer wanted for a fee. That through his rehab and home care.” wanted the job, and was on the and B.S. degrees. During the next was what Venus Scientific did for “Tom Powers ’51 said it all: ‘Wes board of the College Alumni As- year, I was an engineer and then the military market. This time we was a gentle giant!’ To me and all sociation. In 1970, my firm merged got a job in research and develop- would lower costs by keeping en- those who knew him, he was a with two other brokers and the ment at Columbia University’s gineering small but at the manage- grand guy and teammate who will atmosphere changed dramatically. Hudson Laboratories in Dobbs ment level. We were quite profit- be remembered and greatly missed. I stayed on with the new firm as Ferry, N.Y., where I learned about able, and Ultravolt (Ronkonkoma, Wes was interred in Westwood, N.J.” v.p. but no longer as a director. a new device called a transis- N.Y.) was sold in September 2007 H. Gilbert Lahm writes: “After “In 1975, my wife, Ann, and I tor and at the same time in 1956 to Riverside, a successful private graduation from Columbia and decided to move to Vermont. The completed my work toward my equity firm. I retired a second time getting my master’s from the Busi- change was not so dramatic for master’s in electrical engineering. in December 2008. You’d think that ness School, I served in the Army,

may/june 2010 47 class notes columbia college today stationed in Washington, D.C. In dren. Amazingly, during the years Howard Falberg and satisfactions of all members of 1954, I married Ann Salmon. In when he was 50–59, Hank ran five 54 13710 Paseo Bonita “The Class of Destiny.” 1956, we moved to New Jersey, marathons. At 78, he still runs three Poway, CA 92064 and I worked for Western Electric miles every day with two fellows 54 [email protected] REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 in New York City. My entire and swims half a mile every Satur- Alumni Office Contacts business career was with the Bell day. By no means could Hank be I hope that by the time this issue Alumni Affairs Stella Miele-Zanedis System, working in New York and considered to have retired. Along goes to press the weather will be [email protected] Baltimore. with his youngest son, he is an ac- back to “normal.” I suppose that 212-851-7846 “Both before and after retire- tive member of the firm he created means that the snow will melt in Development Paul Staller ment, I had numerous volunteer in North Carolina. most parts of the country while [email protected] jobs with my church, including Way to go, Hank! out here it means that our water 212-851-7494 administrative board chairperson Despite battling muscular dys­ supply will get back to something and finance chairman. I served in trophy, an illness that forces him close to normal. I thought it was Gerald Sherwin the latter position for 22 years. to spend almost all of his time in best described by Brian Tansey 181 E. 73rd St., Apt. 6A “Ann and I have one daughter, a wheelchair, Neal Hirshfeld told when he e-mailed me. I told him 55 New York, NY 10021 Gail, who lives in nearby Allen­ me on the phone, “My life has that I was planning a trip to his fair 55 [email protected] dale, N.J. She and her husband, been a good life. I have many good city (where my brother, Class of Bob, have two children, Matt (13) friends and am pleased with my ’59, lives), and he responded that Columbia alumni always are taking and Cara (10).” existence.” He and his wife, Goody, in Cincinnati they were waiting advantage of the special travel tours Thank you all for contributing to have been happily married for for “the great white tsunami.” I hosted by our “second to none” the column. 57 years and have three children. understand that things are back to faculty. This year is no exception. Their youngest son has two jobs normal at this point. Professor Kenneth Jackson, the in the federal government. He One of our regular contribu- Jacques Barzun Professor in History Lew Robins spends part of his time as an as- tors to this column, Arnie Tolkin, and the Social Sciences, is to be the 1221 Stratfield Rd. sistant director in the patent office writes from Palm Beach that his guest lecturer in early August on a 53 Fairfield, CT 06825 and the remaining time as chief of grandson, Class of ’08, is engaged cruise covering the Black Sea. Jack- 53 staff for the assistant secretary of to marry a lovely young lady, Class son will talk about the military his- [email protected] commerce. of ’09 Barnard, and that they will tory of the region, from the Crimean During the course of a delightful Neal created a law firm that live in Miami (“a stone’s throw War to the importance of Yalta and telephone conversation, Henry grew large, in Rockland County, from where we are”). I always felt Sevastopol in the conduct of WWII. Donaghy talked about his Psi N.Y. Ninety percent of his practice that crossing Broadway between There will be another venture: “Into Upsilon fraternity brother, Robert involved solving matrimonial 116th Street and 120th Street was the Arctic — A voyage to Greenland Gleckler. Hank and Bob had problems. “Helping people who and is a lovely passage. and the Canadian Arctic,” led by an been teammates on Columbia’s are in crisis gave me a great deal Bernd Brecher and his bride expedition leader and naturalists — lightweight football team and of satisfaction,” Neal told me. were off to Africa on a safari to experts on the region. both served as president of Psi About 11 years ago, heart trouble include Mount Kilimanjaro and The Café series is going strong: Upsilon. After graduation, Bob forced Neal to retire and move to the Serengeti and took with them A couple of months ago, Café was drafted and spent two years Sarasota, Fla. However, the firm he “enough shots and pills to take us Humanities featured a lecture by on active duty (one year in Korea). created continues with his son at to Mars.” Who knows, one of these Professor Andreas Huyssen, the He became an account executive the helm. days an “elderly “member of our Villard Professor of German and and v.p. of the well-known, suc- I recently received the following class may write about his trip to Comparative Literature and chair, cessful advertising agency Young delightful handwritten letter from another planet. On a sadder note, Department of Germanic Languag- and Rubicam. According to Hank, Gus Fulk: Bernd writes that Larry Pine passed es, who talked about the connection Bob married Peggy, a beautiful “Dear Lew, I do enjoy your away in February in Delray, Fla. and conflicts between the politics of nurse in training at the Columbia Class Notes in Columbia College I received a lovely letter from the humanities and human rights; School of Nursing. They have a Today. Hope we both can make Hank Buchwald, which I would Café Social Science had a discussion son, daughter and one grandchild. the next reunion. Life here in like to share with you. “I continue on investigative journalism in the Bob retired in 1993 and lives in Little Rock is not very exciting. to work because I love to work as digital age with Sheila Coronel, the New London, N.H. Same house for a little more than a professor of surgery [Hank is Toni Stabile Professor of Profession- As a former enlisted man in 50 years. We used to have four professor of surgery and biomedi- al Practice in Investigative Journal- the Navy, I was intrigued to learn children and one grandmother, cal engineering at the University of ism and director, Toni Stabile Center that when he was only 17 and still now we have a whole lot of storage Minnesota]. I operate, do research, for Investigative Journalism. in high school, Hank enlisted in space. Same wife, Anne, since 1954. teach, write, attend meetings and If anyone is around the neigh- the Naval Reserve and eventually Four children, all college grads am co-editor-in-chief of the inter- borhood on a Monday from 6–7 became a Quarter Master Second and doing well. My daughter, national journal Obesity Surgery. I p.m., it would be well worth it Class. Although he volunteered Marion, and I have been together have had my share of awards and to “soak up” some fascinating a number of times, he was never in an investment business I started recognition, and find the process of knowledge. accepted for active duty. However, in 1957. I figured at the age of 45, working in one’s field the greatest A little further downtown from in 1960, after he had completed his I could probably retire if careful. award and personal compensa- campus, the John Jay Awards Din- obligation as an enlisted man, the No, I’ll stay a while longer. Still at tion. My wife, Emilie, retired as the ner was held at Cipriani 42nd Street Navy gave Hank a commission as it every day! See a lot of changes. founder, publisher and editor-in- on March 3. It was probably the a lieutenant JG in the intelligence Fortunately, it’s my hobby as well. chief of Milkweed Editions, at one largest turnout for any Columbia service. Later, he was recruited by (How many of our classmates are time the largest nonprofit literary dinner. Festive, rollicking and en- New York Life and rose to become still working?) I’ve been running press in the country, but unretired tertaining are words that would de- a general manager and ran various for 40-plus years and try to do 2¼ two years later to found a for- scribe the event led by Dean of the territories including Buffalo, South to 2½ miles every day after work. profit press, the Gryphon Press, College Michele Moody-Adams. Jersey and Charlotte, N.C. After 30 If you ever get down to Arkansas, which publishes award-winning To keep everyone up to date as years with New York Life, Hank let me know. We can go hunting children’s books. We live in joy and we move toward our reunion, Co- retired and eventually opened and fishing.” contentment in the company of our lumbia Community Outreach was his own practice, specializing in After talking with Gus by four daughters, their spouses and celebrated in late March, not only retirement planning and fee-based phone, I can report that he still our six grandchildren, as well as in New York City but also in key planning. has the same wonderful sense of Sam, our dog.” cities around the world. As always, In 1964, Hank married Sandi, humor and southern way of com- I wish the same joy and content- it was a huge success with an whom he calls the love of his life. municating. ment for all of the members of our amazing number of participants, They live in Charlotte and have Keep running, Gus! You are an class. Please let me hear from you including more than 1,000 students six children and eight grandchil- inspiration to the rest of us. and allow me to share the joys and others in New York City.

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In case any of our classmates posted as to final results. Peter Mayer: Former CEO of executive at major networks. I have turned off their computers, As most everyone knows by Viking/Penguin publishing with contacted his wife and expressed discontinued their regular mail now, Al Ginepra passed away on his own publishing company, our class’ sympathy. and haven’t been reading Columbia February 2, 2010, in Santa Monica. Overlook Press, and a writer. So guys and dolls, here is wish- College Today, they should be aware His teammate and classmate, team Alvin Poussaint: Psychiatrist at ing us all health, happiness, a little that we do have a reunion in just captain Neil Opdyke, has been try- Harvard. Wrote books on African- wealth and some longevity. We a few weeks. The neat, four-color ing to put together a mini-reunion American child development, and always hope for concerned chil- brochure that everyone should of ex-players and managers to co-wrote with his friend Bill Cosby. dren and expect only extraordinary have received by now outlines ev- come to the 55th — Dick Carr, Robert Silverberg: A prolific grandchildren. Keep contributions erything you want to know about Bob Dillingham, Ben Hoffman, science fiction writer. coming in to the Columbia College our 55th. It looks like our class Denis Haggerty, John Nelson, Kenneth Silverman: Taught Fund (www.college.columbia.edu/ will be breaking all records once Bob Mercier, Dick Benedick and at NYU and was awarded the giveonline) to continue funding again. To whet everyone’s appetite, Jim Larson. We hope to see you Pulitzer Prize for The Life and Times our 10 annual scholarships, which several weeks ago there was a pre- all or most of you in New York in of Cotton Mather. we set up at our outstanding — an reunion event in which Jack Stup- early June. Milburn Smith: Wrote Off- Army term — 50th reunion. pin’s landscape paintings were put Another classmate who recently Broadway plays. Love to all. on display in the ACA Gallery in left us is John Rigatti from Stur- Dan Wakefield:A novelist and the Chelsea section of Manhattan. bridge, Mass. John was born in social critic. Wrote Going All the Noted art critic and writer Donald Manhattan and was a longtime Way and New York in the Fifties, Herman Levy Kuspit gave some incisive remarks practitioner of medicine. Condo- partly about the Columbia scene 7322 Rockford Dr. to the multitudes who attended lences are extended to his family and Mark Van Doren, a college idol 57 Falls Church, VA 22043 (from both the Class of 2005 — my, and friends. for him and Bob Long. 57 [email protected] have they grown — and our guys). My fellow classmates, it’s only Paul Zweig: Taught at Colum- We saw Roland Plottel, Anthony a couple of weeks until the kickoff bia. Awarded a Guggenheim grant John Taussig: “The West Coast ver- Viscusi and many other hardy of the exciting ’55th. If you haven’t as a poet. Brilliant promise but sion, southern California chapter, ’55ers. done so yet, sign up now for fun and died young. of our Class of ’57 enjoyed our Key events at the reunion will frolic in early June (http://reunion. A great review, and thanks to Bob. second lunch meeting on Janu- be a special reception on Thursday college.columbia.edu). You won’t If anyone was left out, let me know. ary 16 in Long Beach. We met to at the Columbia Club; a tour on regret being with some of the great When you guys (and women), celebrate our 52 ½-year reunion, as Friday of the American Museum personalities in Columbia history. read this, we will have had our sec- a tune-up for No. 55 in New York. of Natural History led by two The euphoria of their company will ond 55th reunion meeting, the first The day itself was typical for us, Columbia astronomers, followed lift you well above the rotunda in at my apartment and the second high of 70, low of 70, [with] nary an by lunch on the Upper West Side; Low Library. a lunch at Faculty House, where earthquake rumble nor a California lunch and dinner on campus See you ’round the Quad. we invited representatives from budget cut to be felt. But our lunch Friday and Saturday at venues Love to all, everywhere! both the College and Engineering gathering was anything but typical. specially hand-picked for the Class Alumni Offices. I have received After our second luncheon, we feel of ’55; Saturday afternoon lectures e-mails from many classmates we are bonding quite well, consid- and meetings of affinity groups Alan N. Miller with suggestions and opinions: ering the 50-plus years it took us to featuring visits to Spectator offices 257 Central Park West, Alan Broadwin, Bob Lauterborn, have these get-togethers 3,000 miles (Milt Finegold, your typewriter is 56 Apt. 9D Lou Hemmerdinger, Dan Link, away from alma mater. still there), WKCR studios (Harold 56 New York, NY 10024 Ron Kapon, Phil Liebson, Alan “Mike Gold, Bernard Lynch, Kushner, the managers may let [email protected] Press, Maurice Klein, Grover Lew Schainuck, Marvin Shapiro, you do your old sports program — Wald, Lee Seidler, Steve Easton, Ken Silvers, Herb Sturman, John Doug Lasher, Peter Oden, Henry Guys, it’s a pleasure to be done Mark Novick, Art Salzfass, Ken Taussig and Gene Wagner met at Roth, Marty Salan — welcome with winter — a tough one — and Keller, Bob Siroty, Ed Botwinick, Parker’s Lighthouse in the Long back), the CUMB (the Columbia I hear from our Florida snowbirds Al Franco ’56E, Jerry Fine, Ralph Beach Marina in the shadow of University Marching Band playing and residents it was even cold Kaslick, Peter Klein and Lenny the Queen Mary to continue our old favorites — might we see Herb there. Can you believe a foot of Wolfe. I hope I did not leave any- conversations and interactions. The Gardner and Elliot Gross in the snow in North Carolina and other one out, and if so, let me know. consensus of the group is to meet group?) and need we say more Southern locales? When I was at Some guys, but only a tiny mi- as close as possible to a quarterly about the Glee Club and other vo- Fort Bragg in southern North Caro- nority fortunately, claim I talk too basis. Those at the lunch live in cal groups raising their voices high lina, an inch of snow at a parachut- much about myself in this column. areas ranging from Pacific Palisades and entertaining the multitudes? ing base of Airborne and Special This stems from the failure of to Newport Beach, so part of our Add to the list of attendees Sven Forces used to jumping in jungles classmates to give me info to write challenge, unlike that for most of Johnson and Ed Francell. Ed ran almost caused paralysis. Things are about. So given more info than our New York classmates, is to find into Harold Kushner, who said he changing! usual, only one personal comment: locations to meet that are relatively will be there, in Atlanta. Will Lew After several conversations with Kudos to Columbia, where I am convenient for all. Fortunately, we Sternfels and his magic camera Bob Long, who is a literary critic taking three courses this term, a can all still drive. Kind of. make it from Los Angeles? We and also writes on theater and film great literature course; a super jazz “If any of you reading this ever heard from Marty Molloy — hope- and has published 50 books, it ap- course to include art, music and [plan a trip] to southern Califor- fully he will take a weekend off pears I had no idea of all the literary literature, with Professor Robert G. nia for business or for pleasure, from his busy schedule on the west talent in our class. So Bob has put O’Meally, the Zora Neale Hurston please let me know (jntaussig@ coast to venture east. We haven’t together a summary of this talent: Professor of English and Com- roadrunner.com) and I can advise heard from Dave Sweet yet. He’d Lou Cornell: Taught at Cornell parative Literature; and a Bible as to our schedule.” love the WKCR tour. and Dartmouth. Wrote Kipling in course with Professor Michael Yours truly returned from a Eu- The class is getting close to its India. Stanislawski, the Nathan J. Miller ropean trip (January 14–February 1) reunion goals in terms of dollars Michael Goldman: Taught at Professor of Jewish History and covering Florence, Fiesole, Bologna, raised and participation. Our glasses Princeton. Wrote books on Shake- chair, Contemporary Civilization. Ravenna, Reading/London and should be raised to Messrs. Elliot speare. If anyone is interested in taking Amsterdam. In addition to the well- Gross, Bob Pearlman, Lew Mendel- Tracy Herrick: Now lives in courses at Columbia, which I heart- known sights of Florence, a real son, Don Laufer, Alfred Gollomp, Stanford, Calif., has published sev- ily recommend, do contact me. gem is La Sinagoga (synagogue). Bob Brown, Dick Kuhn, Don Mc- eral influential books on economics Finally, a sad note about another Located somewhat off the beaten Donough, Steve Rabin, Larry Bal- and investing. classmate death, which is getting track in a nondescript neighbor- fus, Chuck Solomon and of course, Jay Martin: Taught at Yale, a too frequent. Stephen Schenkel hood, it was designed in Moorish Jim Berick, for an outstanding job psychoanalyst. Wrote books on died on January 11, 2010. He was style after Hagia Sophia in Istanbul — well done! We’ll keep everyone American culture. a TV writer and producer and an and completed in 1882. Severely

may/june 2010 49 class notes columbia college today damaged by the Nazis during College, where he is clinical associ- top of the New York Times bestseller Eswein, Roger Spivack, Harris WWII (among other things, they ate professor of medicine. He had list and was a fount of political gos- Schwartz, Joel Nelson and Jay used it as a garage), it now is fully been medical director at Pfizer. sip for weeks afterward. The buzz Brandstadter. Third row, left to right: restored. The exterior is in pink After 37 years in Port Wash- arose primarily from the chapter Willard Zangwill, Ray LaRaja, Nor- marble, set on a lawn with palms ington, N.Y., Miriam and Stan portraying John and Elizabeth Ed- man Gelfand, Mike Zimmerman, and other evergreens. The effect is Goldsmith have sold their house wards as the couple from hell and Norman Bernstein, Allan Gardner, most striking, closely resembling and moved to North Shore Towers describing the events that turned Jack Kahn, Michael Cohen, James an oasis. A few steps away is Ruth’s and Country Club, a luxurious co- their lives and his campaign into a Levy, Sam Tindall, Fredric Knauer vegetarian kosher restaurant, which op in Floral Park, N.Y., where they soap opera. and Matt Sobel. Fourth row, left to serves quite good Middle Eastern met their new neighbors, retired The Class Lunch is held on the right: Paul Kantor, James Watters, meals. musician Marty Silverstein and second Wednesday of every month, Roald Hoffmann, Mike Tannen- Another gem is the Basilica of his wife, Judith. Incidentally, both in the Grill Room of the Princeton/ baum, Bob Koor, Stephen Buch- San Vitale in Ravenna, a one-hour, couples celebrated their 50th wed- Columbia Club, 15 W. 43rd St. ($31 man, Thomas Bilbao, Carl Kaplan, 20-minute train ride from Bologna. ding anniversaries on the weekend per person). E-mail Art Radin if George Spelios, Raphael Schenk, This octagonal, sixth-century church, of June 6–7, 2009. you plan to attend, up to the day Gene Appel, William Bailey, Herb with its exquisite green and gold Henry Kurtz, one of our prolific before: [email protected]. Stern, William Henry, Richard mosaics, is a standout in a city class authors, who has published Latkin and Bob Laibowitz. Top row, renowned for mosaics. Depicted six books and more than 500 maga- left to right: William Frye, Paul Win- are Christ with saints and angels, zine and newspaper articles during Norman Gelfand ick, Ted Graske, Michael Messer, Emperor Justinian and his entou- his career, recently received an c/o CCT Larry Marks, Joel Karen, Allen rage, and Empress Theodora with award for distinguished magazine 59 Columbia Alumni Center Rosenshine and Alvin Goldman. her court. feature article writing from Writer’s 59 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Some of you who could not be In London, a real standout is the Digest magazine. The award New York, NY 10025 at Low for the picture have asked Cabinet War Rooms, the under- singled out his historical article, [email protected] to be added to it. If you send me ground suite in Whitehall where “The Fight at Warbonnet Creek: a picture suitable for inclusion (a Winston Churchill, other British of- History versus Legend,” in which I am sorry that our Class Notes headshot is best) I will try to paste ficials and staff members lived and he contrasted the reality of a minor are so short this month. I can only it onto the picture and will e-mail it worked during the Blitz. Adding skirmish between U.S. troops and print what you send me. If you are to anyone who wants a copy. to the realism and quite stirring are Cheyenne Indians in 1876 and the reading this, it means that you are Stan Keller is actively engaged recordings of some of Sir Winston’s highly romanticized Hollywood interested in reading about your in law practice with his same law wartime speeches. Particularly epic battle portrayed in a film biog- classmates. They have the same firm in Boston, which after a merg- touching is a series of exhibits attest- raphy of Buffalo Bill Cody. Writer’s interest in reading about what you er is now called Edwards Angell ing to Lady Churchill’s heroic role Digest also praised Henry’s most are doing. You can, and should, Palmer & Dodge. He is completing in bolstering her husband’s spirits recent book, Men of War, citing its send me a contribution via the a three-year stint as independent even as she retained her indepen- “engaging writing” and “immacu- USPS to the CCT office of or even monitor of the City of San Diego dent streak. late and thorough research.” In the better, send an e-mail to me at under the city’s SEC enforcement In Amsterdam, an infrequently spirit of diversity (and of solidarity [email protected]. order. Stan reports that it has been visited find is the Begijnhof (pro- a fascinating assignment helping nounced beCHAYNhof), an enclave to create a Sarbanes-Oxley type of of small typically Dutch gabled governance and disclosure regime houses built around a lawn and two Stan Keller ’59 is completing a three-year stint as in one of the 10 largest cities in chapels. It forms an oasis of calm independent monitor of the City of San Diego under the country. Stan also continues to a few steps from a bustling and be involved in legal professional otherwise nondescript shopping the city’s SEC enforcement order. activities, co-chairing the Practicing street. Easily it suggests a movie Law Institute and chairing various set, especially with fresh snow on committees of the ABA Business the lawn. Originally a home for with another prolific ’58 author I try to communicate with Law Section. This, and spending pious lay women (begijnen) who with a special interest in “Dem members of the Class of ’59 via time with his wife of almost 50 did charitable and religious work Bums,” Joe Dorinson) Henry e-mail. If you don’t hear from me years, Sandy, and keeping up with at a neighboring convent, it now also wrote a short memoir, When at least every two months, it means the accomplishments of seven provides housing for the elderly Brooklyn Meant the Dodgers, about that I don’t have a valid e-mail grandkids, keeps him too busy to poor. Next to the Begijnhof is the his childhood years as an ardent address for you, and neither does think about retirement. Amsterdams Historisch (historical) Brooklyn Dodgers fan, which Columbia. If you send me your e- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was Museum. This is a vast museum of recently was published in Sports mail address I can be in touch with in Madrid, Spain, in November the history of the city through the Collectors Digest. The piece re- you and help you get in touch with for four days at a meeting of the centuries, from its days as a small counted his friendship in the 1950s classmates if you want. I will not Board of Directors of the Bankinter fishing village. Among the many with Dodger icon Hilda Chester, forward your e-mail address to Co- Foundation of Innovation, where exhibits are a number of “Dutch “the lady with the cowbell.” Old lumbia without your permission. he is a member. When he checked Masters” paintings. Dodger fans can get a copy by Gil Wright has managed to into the Hotel Ritz Madrid, “the e-mailing Henry at henrykurtz@ identify those of us who were in the desk clerk asked, ‘How was your optonline.net. Who’ll be first to class picture and prepared a caption trip from Jerusalem, Professor Tra- Barry Dickman order, Joe or Ernie Brod? for it. I am including it here. If you chtenberg?’ I replied that my trip 25 Main St. Earlier this year, Marshall Front wish me to send you a copy of the from Washington was fine. Turned 58 Court Plaza North, Ste 104 appeared on PBS’ Nightly Business picture, send me an e-mail. out, there were two Professor 58 Hackensack, NJ 07601 Report to provide a cautiously Bottom row, left to right: Joe Trachtenbergs at the hotel,” Steve [email protected] optimistic outlook on the economy Mittel, Ben Huberman, Frank and a man named Trajtenberg from and the stock market. Gatti, Robert Burd, Mort Klevan, Hebrew University. When they Adding to his impressive list of po- Game Change: Obama and the Joseph Osburn, Robert Nelson, met, it turned out the other Profes- sitions, Henry Solomon has been Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Gil Wright, Robert Ferguson, Herb sor Trajtenberg was an economics appointed chief medical officer of Race of a Lifetime, a book on the Dean, Simeon David, David Clark, Ph.D. from Harvard. His family the American College of Cardiol- 2008 campaign, was co-authored John Schimmenti, Stephen Joel had moved to Israel from Argen- ogy and chair of the American by Mort Halperin’s son, Mark, Trachtenberg, Dan Ein and Robert tina, but before Argentina, they College of Cardiology’s Profes- who is the senior political analyst Stone. Second row, left to right: came from Ukraine, as did Steve’s sional and Corporate Consortium. for Time magazine, and John Heile- Ken Scheffel, Frank Wilson, David family. When they got to talking, Henry will maintain his academic mann, a columnist for New York Smith, Bob Pettit, Bob Ratner, Alan they discovered that they had affiliation with Cornell Medical Magazine. The book opened at the Kahn, Luigi Lucaccini, Robert roots in the very same small town.

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Related? Who knows? Trajtenberg on the trip: fascination with meaningful coinci- honored with a star for each of the turned up in D.C. recently for a “Ah, forgive my needless nosy dences has started to explode. Five five possible categories: television, meeting at the World Bank and urgin’ years ago, when I Googled ‘syn- motion pictures, live theater, record- had lunch with Steve. He is now “You to journey sans the book chronicities,’ there were something ing and radio). Doug’s star now minister of education, and Steve of Persian. like 700 references. Today there are shines in sparkling company. is going to go over to do a bit of “TSA is fine with wine and something like 120,000. Neil Markee advises that he is consulting for him. bread, “In this light, I think there are “mostly retired” and splits his time Steve then traveled to London “But quick to shout ‘Renounce probably a few of my college between Port Jefferson, N.Y., and for four days to see some shows, the 70th virgin!’ ” buddies who would probably be Palm City, Fla. While in Florida, eat, visit museums, shop and catch Gibbs Williams writes, “A interested in the above.” (You can Neil and his wife, Susan, visit with up with old friends. book I have been researching for check out Gibbs’ Web site at www. their daughter, Jennifer, and grand- Steve did not teach during this 50 years is finally being published gibbsonline.com.) son, Jack, in nearby Wellington. spring semester. He hoped to find in the next couple of weeks. It has Stan Feld set up a Class of ’59 Laurans Mendelson and his time to finish a book, which is due truly been a labor of love. At 19, Web site (http://columbiacollege sons, Eric ’87, ’89 Business and Vic- in May, for AGB. He also owes sev- during our sophomore year at cc59.ning.com). He asks us all to tor ’89, were featured in an article eral journal articles and works for Columbia, I (and I have come to visit and contribute to it. that appeared in January in The Mi- Korn/Ferry International looking realize, many of my compatriots) I am saddened to report the death ami Herald. Twenty years ago, the for the next generation of univer- was thoroughly confused with of M. Marvin Finkelstein on March Mendelsons took control of Heico sity leaders. Steve has been invited respect to everything imaginable. 7, 2010. Corp. in a proxy fight. Larry, as to give a commencement address “I began a journal that I dili- Take care. Please send me pic- chairman and chief executive, and at the USC School of Pharmacy. gently contributed to for 37 years. tures to incorporate into the reunion Eric and Victor as co-presidents, The dean heard him speak in D.C. (I stopped at that point, as I ran out picture, e-mail addresses so that I have built Heico into a dynamo at a meeting and thought he would of ink). During a period of some 12 can communicate with you and, in the manufacture of aviation be good. years or so in my mid-20s–mid-30s, most of all, contributions for our replacement parts and electron- “I have clearly flunked retire- I had what I considered to be 19 Class Notes. ics components used in defense, ment. I am going to milk all the major meaningful synchronicities space, medicine and homeland se- sweetness I can out of life before I (named synchronicities by Jung). curity, while producing exceptional REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 sit down. And I do like working.” “This led me into an immer- benefits for its investors. The article Alumni Office Contacts Frank Wilson writes, “As some sion into the esoteric occult, which points out that since the Mendel- Alumni Affairs Meghan Eschmann of you are at least dimly aware, further led me to attend The First sons took control of Heico, profits [email protected] last fall I decided to take advan- Universal Spiritualist Church of have risen at a compound annual 212-851-7399 tage of Portland State University’s New York, where I met some truly rate of 18 percent; the market value Development Paul Staller enlightened policy toward senior fascinating people. Among them of the company has grown from [email protected] citizens under which any geezer so was a psychiatrist who went into approximately $25 million to 212-851-7494 inclined could audit virtually any trance and purportedly channeled about $1 billion; and a $100,000 class offered, tuition-free. For vari- poetry and messages from Freud investment in the company’s stock ous reasons — but mostly because and Jung, which I dutifully record- in 1990 is worth about $3 million of a long interest in America’s ed in my journal. This preceded today. Meticulous attention to incomprehensibly persistent mis- the Seth movement — whoever or detail is one of the keys to the understanding of Iran (beginning whatever he is. Robert A. Machleder company’s success; as an example, with the Dulles brothers under “I found meaningful coinci- 69-37 Fleet St. the article cited Larry’s comment Eisenhower, right about the time we dences fascinating as events in Forest Hills, NY 11375 on the development of one of the all met one another) — I decided and of themselves but much more [email protected] items manufactured by Heico, a to see if I could take advantage of interesting because they seemed to compressor blade, a small sliver of PSU’s offer by enrolling in a Persian defy scientific investigation, thus In our March/April Class Notes, metal: “It took three to four years language class. challenging Freud’s laws of psychic we reported that Doug Morris to develop this compressor blade. “With the second quarter mid- determinism. I was particularly had been honored on the evening If a blade activates at the wrong term exams just over as I write this, challenged when Jung asserted preceding the annual Grammy frequency, it would self-destruct.” the class now stands at the halfway in no uncertain terms that these Awards with the Recording Acad- Maintaining a low debt level has point of year one. It has been a seemingly uncaused but exceed- emy’s Merit Award in recognition also been a factor in the company’s humbling but profoundly refresh- ingly meaningful occurrences were of his singular contributions to the success during the recession. ing experience. I’m still there, along incapable of rational explanation. industry. Word now arrives that The article highlights the with about 15 other students, all “Although I don’t think I was on January 26, Doug received the Mendelsons’ ties to Columbia, young enough to be my grandkids. ever up to the professional philo- 2,399th star on the Hollywood Larry having served on the Board “One of the hopes I have used sophical capabilities of Bob Nozick Walk of Fame, honoring him for of Trustees and the trio hav- as a buttress against the impulse to (whom I sat next to in philosophy having created the world’s largest ing contributed significantly to bail was that I should eventually class, and marveled as to how he and most successful music organi- scholarships, professorships and acquire enough facility in Persian could think the way he did ), never- zation, Universal Music Company programs. (aka Farsi) to be able to travel to theless something was internalized Worldwide. The Walk of Fame is A kind, decent, thoughtful man. Iran. I guessed that with luck (if enough for me to realize that Jung administered by the Hollywood Those were the first descriptives to I could hold off the Alzheimer’s — who has had the undisputed Chamber of Commerce and is enter my thoughts when informed just a little longer), my persistence mantle of authority in the synchron- located on Hollywood Boulevard that Mike Hein had died at his would bring me to that point in a icity scene for the past 54 years (can between Vine and Gower streets. home in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., on couple of years — right about the you imagine?) — was raising more Doug joins a brilliant galaxy of February 7. The cause was cancer, time the politics of Iran’s current unanswered questions than provid- the entertainment industry rang- a disease Mike had encountered military theocracy might have ing absolute answers. ing from Bud Abbott (with three and survived. become less toxic.” “So I started to systematically stars, one each for radio, motion My history with Mike goes back After learning that Frank was generate and then explore one pictures and television) to Adolph to grade school and junior H.S. about to head for Portland’s air- question after another, such as, Zukor (motion pictures), to one U.S. in the Bronx, where we had been port, and having read of an Ameri- ‘What is the meaning of meaning?’, President (Ronald Reagan), two classmates. I immediately reflected can student’s recent detention by until I put together an original California governors (Reagan and on my last talks with Mike. He had Philadelphia’s airport security on naturalistic theory of meaningful Arnold Schwarzenegger), several been concerned for the comfort account of having Farsi vocabu- coincidences, which is the subject cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny and well-being of a longtime friend lary flashcards in his backpack, a matter of my book. being the first so honored), at least now living in a small town in the neighbor cautioned Frank in verse “Through the years, I have two dogs (Lassie and Rin Tin Tin) Southwest, homebound by the pro- about taking his homework along observed that the awareness and and Gene Autry (the only person gressive deterioration of his health.

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best cultural happenings the city Stuart Newman is an avid New has to offer. York Jets fan and season ticketholder If you haven’t registered, do for more than 30 years. He flew to so now: http://reunion.college. San Diego in January with his son, columbia.edu. Mike, and daughter-in-law, Shinko, Mention of the mug requires for the Jets playoff game against the special recognition to David Kirk, Chargers. The Jets pulled off a come- who handled every aspect of its from-behind victory. The San Diego production and distribution with trip was a blast. San Diego fans the diligence and attention that were unbelievably gracious. Stuart’s earned him the rank of Captain granddaughter, Jackie (8), attended (ret.) in the Navy. So singular were the Jets games this past season, with his efforts that the committee’s face paint of course, together with co-chair, Richard Friedlander, was Stuart and her dad, Steve ’87E, mak- inspired to cite David with the ing it three generations of Jets fans. following e-report, Richard hav- Last August, a nonprofit that ing developed his proficiency in Dave Blicker has been associated preparing evaluation reports dur- with since returning from the Steve Simring ’61, a supernumerary for the Metropolitan Opera, had ing his distinguished tour of duty Peace Corps got itself in financial a show and tell on opera during a class luncheon in New York City in as clerk-typist in the U.S. Coast trouble. As the board chair, Dave September. Joining the party were (left to right) Phil Smith ’61, Fred Guard. (For those not familiar was asked to investigate the issues Teger ’61, Tom Gochberg ’61, Richard Neel ’61, Oscar Garfein ’61, Stan with military nomenclature, “Com and identify the problems that Futterman ’61, Simring, Mich Araten ’61, Philippe de la Chapelle ’61, Ira Mbr” below signifies “committee needed to be addressed, and by Hayes ’61, Hal Berliner ’61 and Anthony Adler ’61. Not pictured are Bill member”.) October he found himself accept- Binderman ’61, Marty Kaplan ’61 and Stan Weiss ’61. “CITATION ing the executive director position. PHOTO: Hal Berliner ’61 “As Com Mbr Kirk; D. has Since then, Dave has been work- successfully navigated turbulent ing full-time to stabilize the agency’s merchandising waters and As Com finances and reinvigorate its pro- We exchanged thoughts on how to reer as librarian at the Lenox School Mbr Kirk; D. has brought his cargo grams. Opening Doors, the non- locate services of which the friend and then at Horace Mann School. safely to Port Mailing Fullfillment; profit, resettles refugees in the might avail himself. Not long Mike retired in 2001 before comput- and as Com Mbr Kirk; D. has clev- Sacramento region and provides thereafter, in our next and last con- erization dominated his field. He erly folded the ’60C letter without them and low- and middle-income versation, Mike said that he had managed during his lifetime to resist sustaining water damage; and as underserved residents with impor- just been diagnosed with a return the need for a computer. Com Mbr Kirk; D. has suffered no tant and basic business develop- of cancer. He spoke of it philo- Mike loved all sports and was casualties during this assignment; ment training. ODI focuses on sophically. He would take it as it an avid swimmer. His special love and as Com Mbr Kirk; D. has entrepreneurship, an engagement came and make the best of each was basketball, and he remained damaged no ’60C property, Now that Dave also had while in the day. And then he quickly turned to steadfast in his loyalty to the Therefore by the power vested in Peace Corps. a discussion of his efforts on behalf Knicks even through these, their me by classmates, this Reunion ‘E’ ODI has a loan fund, with about of his friend. Of course, as in every worst years. Ann said that his goal is awarded to said Com Mbr Kirk; $360,000 currently out on loan. It conversation, he spoke of Rebecca, had been to stay alive long enough D. on this 24th day of February also has a great staff, with mem- the beloved daughter so central to to see the Knicks sign LeBron 2010 by: bers from nine countries and who his life, and what new ventures she James. At least it was comforting to “Co Chr Reu Comm Friedlander” are multi-lingual, allowing them to was undertaking. It was typical of hear that in only the last three days And this occasion shall not pass do their micro-enterprise trainings Mike to place himself last and his of his life did Mike most feel the without a tip of the cap and three in the recipients’ language and in a interest in others first. effects of his fatal illness, experi- rousing hurrahs for the extraordi- culturally appropriate manner. I reread the moving tribute and encing disorientation, and then he nary time and effort devoted by So, according to Dave, it’s a reflection he wrote for the Class passed in relative peace. A kind, Richard, who pulled the laboring good job and feels good, too. Notes on the life and profound loss decent, thoughtful man. oar, kept the committee together My wife, JB, and I had a busy of Mike Lesch, his closest friend The class extends its deepest and involved, tended to every last month of February, spending it at who died suddenly, unexpectedly, condolences to Ann and Rebecca. detail and brought the program to- Copper Mountain (Colo.) skiing on a fishing trip in South America. It is hard indeed to grasp the re- gether whilst his co-chair professed with a three-day break to Las Ve- The two met as freshman and were ality that we are on the threshold of to have spent the winter lost in the gas for our son Jeff’s wedding and together on the freshman basket- the half-century anniversary of our ceaseless snow falls of Forest Hills an opportunity to catch up with ball team. Each had been the best graduation. The Reunion Commit- engaged in hand-to-hand combat Sue and Jack Kirik and Gerry Bro- man at the other’s wedding. tee has made every effort to ensure with snow shovel and ice-chipper. deur. Gerry lives there, and Jack Ann, Mike Hein’s wife of 32 that the celebration will be memo- Here’s hoping for a magnificent spends the winter there playing years, described how important rable. We have been importuned to turnout. Look forward to seeing golf. The last week in February, De- Columbia had been in Mike’s life: attend Alumni Reunion Weekend, you in June. nise and Alex Liebowitz came out “He really valued the chance to which for us begins Wednesday, to ski with us, and Lisa and Bob study the great classics of Western June 2, with the opening reception Rennick drove up from Colorado Civilization and think about his on campus at the President’s House Michael Hausig Springs to celebrate our collective relationship to the world. He still and concludes Sunday, June 6, with 19418 Encino Summit 70th birthdays (21 Celsius) about has many of his books. He always brunch and farewell in the Low 61 San Antonio, TX 78259 two weeks apart (Bob and Mike). listened to all sides of the issues Faculty Room. And we have been 61 John Harvey writes that he [email protected] and analyzed them. He was a very “mugged”: this, a gesture to express is having a great life. He and his critical thinker.” the committee’s earnest desire that Reminder: Our 50th reunion will wife, Joan, recently returned from Mike did graduate work at each and every one of us participate take place Wednesday, June 2– Paris, and last October, they spent Columbia to get a teaching degree in the events of the weekend, or in Sunday, June 5, 2011. A committee his 70th birthday in southern and taught English for two years. so many as we are able to attend. is planning the event with the help Italy. This sure beats working for He went into advertising and spent Some other absolutely delightful of the Alumni Office. Anyone inter- a living, especially having retired several years enjoying the creative surprises await us, including a ested in helping should contact from the newspaper business. Joan side of his work, but chose to leave class picnic, a tour of the Intrepid Tony Adler (awadler@spartacom works for The Oregonian, but a 12 the field and follow another path. He Museum, a class discussion, several mercial.com) or Burtt Ehrlich percent reduction in the newsroom returned to Columbia for a master’s dinners and cocktail gatherings and (burtt@ bloomberg.com) with their staff is expected shortly so her situ- in library science and pursued a ca- the chance to take in some of the ideas. ation is fluid.

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John informed me that Bob and medicine. Bob played a key enjoying retirement and has two co-holder of U.S. patent 7,624,068. Trelstad died on February 15 at role in developing the Child Health sons in college. And I have about half of my first his home in Princeton, N.J., after a Institute of New Jersey, serving as As you can see, we need news draft written for novel two, Black, three-year struggle with fronto- acting director for the seven years from you. Please write! with a Pinch of Salt.” temporal dementia, a disease that prior to its opening in 2005. Bob also OK, Frank, I take that as a chal- slowly robbed him of his ability found time to be chair of the Health lenge for the class. I want to hear to speak and then continued to Professions Advising Committee Paul Neshamkin from the first of you who is work- progress. He had been hospitalized at Princeton. When he received the 63 1015 Washington St., Apt. 50 ing on your second patent while several weeks prior to this writing prestigious Edward J. Ill Outstand- Hoboken, NJ 07030 you are working on your third and then returned home under ing Medical Educator Award for 63 novel. Any takers? [email protected] hospice care. 2007, the chairman of the award Henry Black writes, “We (wife At South Salem (Ore.) H.S., Bob cited Bob “as a true example of an You’re probably enjoying a lovely Benita and I) recently moved from excelled at everything he attempted, outstanding medical educator. His spring day, but it’s been one heck- the Village to West 81st Street — chalking up a 4.0 GPA for his three commitment to students and teach- uva winter here on the East Coast that much closer to alma mater. We years at South and having a wicked ing and his love for medicine have — “Où sont les neiges d’antan” in- have taken tremendous advantage shot from the foul circle, which made him an extraordinary teacher deed. Joe Applebaum wrote in the of the pre-basketball game buffet made him a valuable sixth man on of physicians.” middle of the second big storm of dinners in the Lou Gehrig Lounge, the basketball team. He attended Barbara has kept equally busy, February from Washington, D.C., courtesy of such local emporia as hometown Willamette University and currently is on the Princeton “Our power went out last week- V&T, Fairway, Rack ’n’ Soul and for his freshman year, where he Borough Council. They have four end and so my wife, Phyllis, and Carmine’s. These dinners are a again rang up a 4.0. His academic sons, Derek, Graham, Brian and I — along with our cats — have bonus to all season ticket holders career then took a sudden turn, Jeremy, and numerous grandchil- decamped to a nearby hotel. Our in the True Blue program, and it’s all due to an unlikely source: the dren. Bob also is survived by his power seems to be restored, but the fun to mix and mingle with alums, movie Vertigo. brothers, John, and Donald ’69, roads are impassable so we’ll go young and not-so-young.” Bob and John drove 50 miles who has had a distinguished career home Friday. All else is well.” Harley Frankel’s College Match to Portland to see the film on a as a cardiologist in Portland. Steve Barcan took the weather program, which we have mentioned July evening after our freshman Robert Randall and David in stride and headed to Vermont many times in these notes, brought year, and on the way home, John Blicker informed me that Leslie to ski with his kids and grandkids. 64 outstanding low-income public suggested that Bob join him at and Max Cohen’s son, Adam, a Paul Gorrin wrote from southern school students to visit Columbia Columbia. He liked the idea and Ph.D. in the field of English litera- Delaware that he had two feet of in two groups in March. Harley the next day called the Columbia ture, died in January at 38. Adam snow and a blizzard. Paul also has been consistently successful in Admissions Office. The person on was a Shakespeare scholar, an au- invited us to the 55th Georgetown placing these students into first-rate the other end of the phone politely thor and a favorite teacher of many Oyster Eat the last Friday in Febru- universities. told Bob that he had to be out of of his students at the University ary. As you read this in May, I Thanks for the fine work, Harley. his mind to think that he could of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, guess we all missed a great time. Steve Honig writes, “My wife call two months before the school where he joined the faculty in 2005. “As a visiting friend of our and I and our son, Matthew (6), are year began and be admitted. But On behalf of the class, I offer our oldest son, Daniel, said a couple preparing for our trip this spring [as Bob persevered and mailed his deepest sympathies to Max, Leslie of years ago, as he looked out for I write this]. We start out in Monte transcript to Columbia anyway; and Adam’s wife and daughters on the first time at the cigar-smoking Carlo, where my son, Peter, has a Columbia then quickly accepted their heartbreaking loss. beginning-to-be-drunk men of all one-man show of his photographs him, and they headed back to ages milling about the sawdust- at the gallery at the Casino. From Columbia in September, where covered floor of Georgetown there, we go to a photo safari in Bob was always near the top of John Freidin grabbing beers, lining up for raw Zululand, and then to Cape Town his class. Bob was in the top 12 for 22 Terrace Heights oysters, crowding around about to sightsee and try the wine (in Mat- GPA at the end of his junior year 62 Weybridge, VT 05753 20 or so stands with holes cut out thew’s case, the local orange juice). and qualified for Phi Beta Kappa. 62 in their centers for shells to be While I have lost touch, or rather [email protected] He graduated the next year magna tossed in, volunteer firemen turned almost never had contact, with cum laude. Tony Wolf practices child and waiters shouting, ‘Hot stuff ... hot Boston area classmates, I would be Meanwhile, his high school adolescent psychology in Long- stuff,’ carrying tubs of steamed pleased to hear from them.” sweetheart, Barbara Henken, meadow, Mass. He is the author of oysters to be ingloriously poured Sounds like a great trip. You can moved to New York to attend class- six parenting books, including the onto the stands and generously reach Steve at StephenHonig@ es at Columbia. They returned to widely acclaimed Get Out of My divided amongst the one-gloved, comcast.net. Salem and married in summer 1961 Life, but First Could You Drive Me & oyster-knife-wielding dudes and Art Eisenson has been a lead and then struck out for Cambridge, Cheryl to the Mall? A Parent’s Guide shared with their friends behind named plaintiff and a member of Mass., where Bob had been admit- to the New Teenager. Tony also is on them: ‘This is the real America.’ the Plaintiffs’ Liaison Committee ted to Harvard Medical School, the advisory boards of Parenting Come down, I’d love to see you. in a series of writers’ class action following in his father’s profession. Teens Online and The Century And if you can’t make it, come the employment discrimination suits. Bob focused on the emerging field Council, a nonprofit organiza- last Friday of February 2011.” He writes, “I am limited by the of cell biology and upon gradua- tion working to combat underage Paul, sounds like a great time. terms of a settlement agreement in tion entered a residency program in drinking. Tony speaks widely Maybe a bunch of us can make it what I can say about it. However, if pathology at the famed Massachu- about teenagers and parents. His down next year. our classmates read major newspa- setts General Hospital. That was newest venture is a regular column Further south, even the snow- pers in the United States, they will followed by several years at the for the Toronto Globe and Mail. He birds complained a bit. Doug have seen articles and published National Institutes of Health, and in has authored columns in several Anderson wrote, “Sorry not to be legal notices about the settlements. 1972, Bob joined the faculty of the other publications and has pub- able to join you but not unhappy A FAQ about those suits and pathology department at Harvard lished articles about adolescents to be in sunny (but chilly) Palm settlements can be found at www. Medical School, later moving across and parenting in Child magazine, Beach. Would someone please send tvwriterscounsel.com/questions. the street from Mass General to the Parents and Family Circle as well as a decent pastrami sandwich?” And html. The fact that only the federal Shriners Burns Institute. others. Tony earned his Ph.D. in Frank Partel wrote, “I am teeing government has ever taken on In 1981, Bob moved to Robert clinical psychology at CUNY short- off today in 56-degree weather at or gotten a settlement from the Wood Johnson Medical School ly after graduating from Columbia. 1 p.m. here in Vero Beach. Geez, it’s entertainment industry may be of (Rutgers), where he stayed for a He lives with his wife in Suffield, cold down here. It’s a good thing interest to attorneys, historians or quarter of a century, including 18 Conn. They are the parents of two that we wear a glove on one hand people who like bar bets. What is years as head of the pathology ex-teenagers. when we play golf. Happy to let more significant, finally, is that we department. He was a visionary in Allen Young has been in touch you know that I was informed hope to address what is effectively the use of computers in education with David Tucker, who is really by the USPTO that I am now the a truncation of American popular

may/june 2010 53 class notes columbia college today narrative, in the form of TV fiction. rogated at the Tehran airport.” the surface with such speed that here make this the perfect place The experiences of generations Farhad, I hope that this issue has he rises out of the water up to his to dramatically expand the role of much over 40 are simply not there been resolved. waist. I was mildly panicked. After human-scale transportation.” in proportion to our numbers. We Paul Lehrer writes, “All of my much eructation, there was room When I asked him if any pro­ hope now to help people make friends are talking about retire- for my lungs to expand and down gress had been made, Steve replied, sense of our lives by giving older ment plans, but I think I have just I went on the afternoon dive, this “Thanks for responding and offer- writers the opportunities to tell the learned how to do my profession time successfully. I hadn’t gone ing to give some visibility to the stories used to tell our truths and well, so I’m still going with full diving for more than 20 years and issue. I’m afraid there has been no ask our questions. steam. I am a clinical psycholo- didn’t realize what time and a bad improvement in the situation. I may “It’s been an education about gist and professor of psychiatry stomach had done to my underwa- be history soon after the magazine law and the way the law business at the University of Medicine and ter breathing apparatus.” comes out, but I still think it is im- is done in the United States. To Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Steve Stollman wrote a while portant for former students to know borrow a term from my profession I am a past president of the Asso- ago to let us know that he was what is going on here. I’d love to as a screen and TV writer, we owe ciation for Applied Psychophysiol- about to be evicted from his of- hear from some of them.” ourselves a rewrite.” ogy and Biofeedback and have just fices of more than 20 years at 3251 You can find the full correspon- Alexis Levitin sends “Greetings received a sizable grant from the Broadway. “I have been offered, dence from Steve (and even more from Plattsburgh, N.Y. I still am National Heart, Lung and Blood albeit at an unaffordable five times news from Michael Hassan and teaching and still enjoying it, so I Institute to study biofeedback my current rate, replacement space others) on our Web site, www. probably won’t retire for another treatment of asthma. I have edited in the Nash building, where the cc63ers.com. two or three years. Meanwhile, a book, Principles and Practice of Manhattan Project got its start. Recent Class of ’63 lunches have I had three books of translations Stress Management that is now in its Given the interdisciplinary nature been well attended. I hope that you come out in the last year. Consecra- third printing and have published of our quest, this is a most appro- will try to make the next lunch, tion of the Alphabet, published by more than 100 papers in various priate location to gather the best scheduled for Thursday, May 13 Scortecci Editora, Sao Paulo, Brazil, scientific journals. This stage of a vehicle design and construction (and then on Thursday, June 10). is a collection of 22 rhymed sonnets teaching career is very rewarding, minds. They could help to heal the Check our Web site for details and by Brazilian poet Leonor Scliar- particularly seeing my students potentially fatal environmental and to review pictures of past gather- Cabral. Each poem is dedicated to now develop productive aca- economic (and ethical) wounds ings to see if you can spot an old one letter of the Hebrew alphabet. demic careers of their own. I also that our unsustainable transporta- friend. The original Portuguese poems are enjoy my clinical practice through tion system is still inflicting upon In the meantime, let us know accompanied by my English trans- UMDNJ. our chances of survival. what you are up to, how you’re lations, along with translations by “My wife, Phyllis, is an accom- “My business consists of two doing and what’s next. others into French, Spanish and plished piano teacher and peda- elements. One, profit-making, even Hebrew. Tapestry of the Sun: gogue, and is a professor of piano involves antique restoration, an Anthology of Ecuadorian Poetry, at Westminster Choir College of including treasured elements Norman Olch published this past summer by Rider University. My daughter, of New York City’s history, like 233 Broadway Coimbra Editions, San Francisco, Suzanne, lives in nearby Princeton, the Automat and finely crafted 64 New York, NY 10279 Calif., is the first collection of Ecua- and has two lovely children (3 and 100-year-old carved Victorian bars. 64 [email protected] dorian poetry ever to be published 18 months). She also is a pianist I also can be legitimately defined in the United States. I co-translated and teacher. She is married to a as a recycler, since a surprising por- The informal class lunches at the the book with Ecuadorian writer lovely fellow, Jonathan LeBouef, tion of my inventory was headed Columbia Club in Manhattan on Fernando Iturburu. Brazil: A Trav- who is an associate registrar at for the dump before it was rescued. the second Thursday of the month eler’s Literary Companion, which Princeton. My son, Jeffrey, is a “My other activity involves continue. We meet in the Grill I edited for Whereabouts Press, diplomat with the U.S. Agency for the creative development of new Room on the third floor, which Berkeley, Calif., is a collection of International Development. He human-scale and human-powered everyone seems to admire. Join us. Brazilian short stories organized lives in Tajikistan with his lovely transportation, bikes and trikes. Allen Tobias has been named by region and intended to be read wife, Natasha, and two children (6 I have put on conferences and the Arts and Culture reviewer for as the traveler visits various parts and 3).” events involving this work for 30 the online publication examiner. of the country. It was published in Michael Hassan sent the latest years. I operate a facility in Flush- com. Go to the Web site, type Allen January.” episode in his life adventure. “I’m ing Meadows Park devoted to the Tobias in the “Search” box, and Alexis, you’ve been a busy man. presently traveling in the Philip- evolution of these vital devices you will find eclectic reviews rang- You can find a recent picture taken pines with a friend whom I met in (www.LightWheels.com). We have ing from rock ’n’ roll to the Frick in Spain on our Web site, www. Cebu last year. He’s an ex-Navy also been making proposals to the Museum. cc63ers.com. Seal, and we met on Mactan city regarding its plans to deploy a Stuart Siepser is a cardiologist Farhad Ardalan has been denied Island at Chief Lapu-Lapu’s shrine. widespread shared-vehicle system in Wayne, N.J. After skiing in the a visa to travel to the U.S. from “Mactan Island is a part of Cebu (www.LocalExpression.com). If I morning at Hunter Mountain — a Iran. He sent me an article from and is where the famous explorer am able to persist in my tenancy good cardiovascular exercise — he the February 20 issue of Science Magellan bit the dust after living in Harlem, my intention is to de- showed up for an evening event at Magazine (you’ll find a link on our there only three hot and humid velop a creative design program the Columbia Club also attended Web site) that relates the frustrating weeks. Seems Magellan sided to engage students and others in by Nick Rudd. tale. Farhad was made a fellow of with the wrong chieftain during prototyping, testing and putting The New York Times Book Review the American Physical Society last an intertribal war and lost his life into operation crucial elements ran a full page review of The Great fall in part because of his work to as well as those of most of the of the next generation of urban American University: Its Rise to Pre- connect Iran to the global scien- 600 men with him. The ex-Seal transportation. eminence, Its Indispensable National tific community. He had hoped to and I are going diving off another “When I provided the space Role, Why It Must Be Protected by come to the society’s meetings to island, Camiguin. The last time I and funding for the introduction Jonathan Cole. The review noted be honored, but the U.S. Embassy dove, I returned to tell the tale, but of pedicabs into New York City 18 that the book “makes the case for claimed he had an arrest record I had a scary moment that made years ago, it was to spur awareness the extraordinary role [American and that he had been involved in my coupling up with the ex-Seal of the potential for clean, quiet, research universities] play in deportation proceedings in New seem like a smart move. The last healthy modes of lightweight improving our daily lives. He also York in 1993. He denies knowledge time (in Subic Bay, of WWII fame), transit like human-powered trans- argues that these ‘jewels in our na- of both charges, states that he is sure I had to abort the morning dive portation to find a place here. It is tion’s crown’ face a host of serious that he is being confused “with a because I ate too much oatmeal for more important than ever to find threats.” person with the same name who breakfast and, coupled with my the way to minimize our impact on Jack Leitner has retired as an was a leader of the Kurdish guer- hiatal hernia, found myself 15 feet this planet rather than maximize it. internist after 23 years in Framing- rilla movement; as a result, for years down and unable to catch a breath. The density of this city and wide ham, Mass. A local newspaper, I was routinely stopped and inter- Picture a diver roaring up towards variety of activities taking place The Daily News, published a long

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piece about his career, from which years later were not stimulating “Another example of a Colum- New York City. Mike will receive I quote. “After graduating from enough. As your correspondent, I bia encounter: Last November, the the Professor Lawrence P. King the College, and then from Albert deeply regret that an unbreakable California State Bar presented me Award for Excellence in the Field Einstein College of Medicine, he family commitment will require with its first award for Intellectual of Bankruptcy. and his wife, Margaret, spent a me to be out of state for the entire Property Jurisprudence. At the cer- Sad news: Donald E. Welsh year on a kibbutz in Israel while he weekend, so please have an even emony, I noticed someone smiling died suddenly on February 6 in was a resident in a hospital in Tibe- better time, partly in honor of my at me whose face looked familiar. Tortola, British Virgin Islands. He rias. ‘I used to have my lunch with absent presence. It was Neil Smith, who struck up was 66 and lived in Boston Corner, the shepherds.’ After returning to If you haven’t registered, do a most enjoyable conversation and N.Y. Don launched numerous America, he became chief resident so now: http://reunion.college. filled me in on his various exploits magazines during the last 28 at a Veterans Administration hospi- columbia.edu. over the last 45 years. Neil is a years. He attended the Cleveland- tal in Boston where he first became One classmate who promises to lawyer in San Francisco with an ac- Marshall College of Law and involved in the treatment of lung be there is the Honorable Howard tive practice focused on intellectual was admitted to the Ohio bar. He cancer, a disease common among Matz. Judge Matz sent me a com- property law. worked initially for the Cleveland hospitalized veterans. He also prehensive update, which I print in “A few weeks ago, I had a long Trust Co. but soon moved on to learned the importance of house its entirety: talk with my Columbia roommate, the magazine business, starting at calls. ‘I had a patient in Milford. Fortune in the advertising depart- When he was dying, I went out ment. From there, he moved to to see him a couple of times. I’d Rolling Stone, rising to the position never been to Milford in my life, Mike Cook ’65 is being honored in May by the of associate publisher. He went on but when a patient is dying, his Bankruptcy and Reorganization Group of the UJA — to be the founding publisher of physician shouldn’t abandon him.’ Outside, founded by Rolling Stone After 10 years as an oncologist Federation of New York’s Lawyers Division. publisher Jann Wenner. Don also in Framingham, ‘It got to be too was a publisher of US (now US much,’ and he became an internist Weekly). Don then started Welsh in 1985. In his examining room was “The upcoming reunion in June Bob Caserio, whose note appeared Publications with Muppet Maga- a map of Israel, and when giving (I will be there) undoubtedly will in the November/December ’09 zine. Numerous “kid power” titles, men a prostate exam he used to provide a good opportunity for our issue. Were you surprised by the including Barbie, Power Rangers and say, ‘Turn around and face Israel.’ ” classmates to fill each other in on breadth and depth of Bob’s publica- Mickey Mouse, followed during the Jack estimates he treated 5,000 recent and not-so-recent develop- tions and other projects? I wasn’t; next 12 years until their 1994 sale to patients in his career. It was a privi- ments, but I decided to send in a he was never good at saying ‘no’ to Marvel Entertainment. According lege: “For most of the time, I didn’t contribution to your growing file. an important professional engage- to an obituary published February consider it a job,” he said. Jack be- Here it is. ment. How impressive that Bob’s 18 in The New York Times, Don’s moans the fact that most internists “I continue to serve as a federal dedication to the world of literature focus on children’s publications do not go with their patients to the judge (now in my 11th year). As and writing remains so deep. began when his young daughter, hospital. “One of my pet peeves is you know, federal jurisdiction “So many Columbia students Leah, asked him for a subscription internists are giving up their care is vast and complicated — civil now come from Southern Califor- to People. As Don recalled in a 1985 to hospitalists … I mourn the fact and criminal litigation, admiralty nia that [Dean of Alumni Affairs interview with Forbes, he thought that we have hospitalists.” He is litigation, patent and other intel- and Development] Derek Wittner there had to be a more appropriate disappointed in President Obama’s lectual property litigation, and and his wife, Kathryn, come here children’s magazine available. But efforts to reform health care and in the like. It remains both exciting annually to host a luncheon for he was disappointed at what he his leadership, and told him so in a and humbling to discharge such newly admitted students and their found. “Children’s publications recent letter. important responsibilities. One of families. My wife, Jane, and I often talk down to the kids and are al- Jack has three children and two the nice and unexpected ‘perks’ of attend those events. This year, we ways teaching,” he said, “and they grandchildren. He wrote to me that the position is that it occasionally had the pleasure of sitting with the always seem to have lambs and in March he was going to Israel enables me to have contact with new dean, Michele Moody-Adams. bears in the margins of the pages.” to visit Israeli victims of suicide other Columbia graduates. Just She is remarkably thoughtful, After the sale to Marvel, Don bombs and the Lebanese war. Jack last week, for example, I swore eloquent and gracious. The College began Arthur Frommer’s Budget can be reached at 774-279-6159. into citizenship in a ceremony made a wise choice in selecting her. Travel, along with Mr. Frommer, in conducted in my courtroom the “I hope that the organizers of 1998, which he sold to Newsweek a Israeli-born wife of Michael Brous the upcoming reunion somehow year later. In 2002, he introduced REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 ’98. That came about through my will have the time and the ability to Budget Living, a chic magazine for Alumni Office Contacts connection with other members of put together information that goes young professionals on a budget. Alumni Affairs Stella Miele-Zanedis the Brous family, including Rabbi beyond the usual self-written brief It won awards for the best new [email protected] Sharon Brous ’95; Sharon’s hus- profiles. Wouldn’t it be refreshing magazine for industry publications 212-851-7846 band, David Light ’95; her father, to learn something about ourselves as well as the American Society of Development Heather Hunte Rick Brous ’58, ’60 Business; and as a group — such as how many of Magazine Editors’ highest honor, [email protected] her close friend Shawn Landres us became teachers? Writers? How the general excellence award. His 212-851-7957 ’94. Several years ago I swore many ever served in the military? last project was a joint venture, Leonard B. Pack Shawn’s wife, Zuzanna, into citi- How many returned to where they Forbes Life Mountain Time. “He 924 West End Ave. zenship. Naturalization proceed- grew up after leaving Columbia? created a corporate culture that 65 New York, NY 10025 ings are wonderful. Sometimes I How many sent children to Co- rewarded experimentation,” Susan 65 have conducted them for nearly lumbia? (Jane and I sent two of our Grey Miller, the first editor of Bud- [email protected] 5,000 new citizens at a time, at the three sons, Jeremy ’93 and Jonathan get Living, said. “Don Welsh was It’s spring, and the thoughts of not- Los Angeles Convention Center, ’02.) There are undoubtedly many absolutely fearless, and encour- so-young men turn to ... reunion! the Los Angeles Sports Arena and ways to begin to paint a composite aged everyone who worked for By the time this issue of CCT other venues. The large ceremonies picture about our class; these are him to take risks.” arrives in your mailbox, our 45th are very colorful. The new citizens just a few examples. I hope they Apparently, taking risks came reunion will be only days away, happily wave small American flags lead to something. naturally to Don, who had led and as Alumni Reunion Weekend will they are given, and I invite them to “See you in June!” participated in several Outward run from Thursday, June 3–Sun- identify the countries where they Mike Cook will be the honoree Bound expeditions around the day, June 6. I hope as many of you were born or raised before coming of the Bankruptcy and Reorgani- world with magazine colleagues. as possible will be there, for our here. Usually, there are more than zation Group of the UJA — Fed- In fact, the Outward Bound board Reunion Committee has planned a 80 countries! As the son of an im- eration of New York’s Lawyers of directors stated in its sponsored weekend full of stimulating events, migrant, these ceremonies resonate Division at its 2010 luncheon on obituary, “Don believed intensely as if seeing your classmates 45 deeply with me. May 3 at the Waldorf=Astoria in in the life-changing experience of

may/june 2010 55 class notes columbia college today an Outward Bound course and, ory of the dead usually is titled, in somewhat ersatz type. Curiously, of the passing of Harold Hotelling with John Mack Carter, used his translation, ‘Mourner’s Kaddish life doesn’t feel very changed, Jr., of Rochester Hills, Mich., at the extensive network of publishing [sanctification],’ but the literal trans- but this is a general finding in the end of December 2009. contacts to launch a successful lation of the Hebrew is ‘Orphan’s psychology of happiness literature. public service ad program on our Kaddish,’ and that’s what it felt like. Major positive events, such as win- behalf. Since his first Outward It’s surprising how much the loss ning the lottery, or negative ones Albert Zonana Bound course in 1983, Don could of one’s last parent leaves a hole have mostly a transitory effect on 425 Arundel Rd. often be found climbing Kilimanja- in one’s life, even though one is an people’s level of happiness, with 67 Goleta, CA 93117 ro, trekking in Tibet, river rafting in adult (and has been an adult for little long-term change. Perhaps 67 [email protected] Colorado or hiking across England, decades) with a spouse and descen- because it’s a repeated experience, bringing along with him his peers dants of one’s own. more of a ‘high’ comes to me from Leigh Dolin wrote from Portland, in the publishing industry so they “Apart from his personal being invited to conferences or Ore.: “Forty-three years ago, I was too could understand the power of importance to me, which I came to getting proposed presentations the only pre-med/Russian major in Outward Bound and help expose fully appreciate only in retrospect, onto conference programs and our class. I really loved my Russian its mission and educational phi- I only retrospectively learned how giving papers. I enjoy the travel, studies, and it was hard to break losophy to countless young people. distinguished my father had been get to one or two meetings outside them off when I entered medical His creative mind, engaging professionally. I’d known he was the United States annually and school and my medical career. Be- personality and boundless energy one of the originators of forensic use listening at conferences as a ing a primary care doctor (internal will be deeply missed.” toxicology, but only after his death substitute for the reading of profes- medicine) became increasingly Don is survived by his wife, learned how much he’d done to sional journals that I ‘ought’ to do, frustrating, and when I retired two Bourne; brother, Edward, of Gates organize and advance the profes- but don’t. (There are only enough years ago, I decided to live out my Mills, Ohio; children, Leah of sion around the world. There are at hours in one lifetime for a major fantasy of returning to college. So Raleigh, N.C., and Philip of New least three annual Irving Sunshine commitment to reading the profes- here I am, again immersed in Rus- York; and two grandchildren. awards given by various organiza- sional literature or to creating it; sian studies at Portland State Uni- tions in the field. I’ve settled into doing the latter.) versity and loving it. I’m usually “At the other end of the age “In terms of avocations, my (but not always!) the oldest guy in Stuart Berkman spectrum, our second grandchild biggest news is that I’ve managed my class, but I have no problem Rua Mello Franco, 580 was born just before my father’s — at least temporarily — to give keeping up with the youngsters, 66 Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro death. We’re now up to five up being president of Yiddish of and I love being back in college. 66 25960-531 Brasil grandchildren, ages 1–6, with the Greater Washington, the main Yid- And I don’t miss practicing medi- [email protected] San Francisco crew recently having dish organization in our area. Being cine at all. I did it for 36 years, but moved back to Brooklyn, which president for life may be attractive now I’m a student again and plan From the Park Slope section of makes them much more acces- for the many heads of state who to stay in college indefinitely this Brooklyn, David Stern writes, “I sible. It’s interesting how, despite attempt it, but it’s no fun at a small, time around.” have retired after 38 years with having the same parents and the perpetually volunteer-starved, Many of you may be engaged in the New York State government same home, the children in each shoestring-budget, nonprofit orga- similar adventures. Your class- service. Although I am open to family differ from one another. Of nization. I’ve remained an active mates would love to read about part-time retirement gig opportu- course, it shouldn’t be a surprise leader. New difficulties for us have them. Do write. nities, I have not started seriously — we experienced it with our own cropped up this year, mostly due to looking around. Since [my son] children — but it remains a source financial squeezes at other organi- Jonathan is away at school, my of wonderment. The pattern of zations we’ve worked with. Most Arthur Spector wife, Robin, and I have a lot of time vacations for my wife and me has prominently, after teaching Yiddish 271 Central Park West to ourselves, and that’s fine after all changed, from trips to (somewhat) for 30-plus years, the University 68 New York, NY 10024 these years. If you can stream the distant (though not very exotic) of Maryland was on course to 68 [email protected] radio station of SUNY Purchase, lands to frequent long-weekend eliminate it. We organized a letter- you can tune into Jonathan’s rock visits with the grandchildren. writing and publicity campaign Greetings from sunny, almost- music radio show on Thursday They’re lots of fun, and it’s nice that has won a reprieve, at least for spring New York. nights from midnight–1 a.m. He to be able to enjoy spending time a year. It’s a pleasant surprise to my So just a moment on Columbia presently has anywhere from two with them and watch them change, cynicism to find that large institu- sports news: The basketball season to 11 listeners on a given night, so which happens rapidly. Most tions can be influenced. However, was less than I expected, but the any support you can lend will have recently, in the space of a month, to gain a longer-term reprieve, we team did beat Penn twice this year, an outsized impact on his ratings.” the youngest has gone from unable may have to conduct a fundraising the first time since — you guessed You can correspond with David at to crawl to crawling all over and campaign far larger than we’ve ever it — our senior year. Must be a [email protected]. even pulling herself upright on contemplated. sign. And recently, Kyle Merber My friend and classmate from convenient verticals. “I remain a jogger and bicyclist, ’12 broke the Ivy League record in both Cleveland Heights H.S. and “Professionally, I continue as but have given up on marathons the mile, 3 minutes, 58 seconds — Columbia College, Jonathan Sun- head of health economics/health (the 65-year-old body won’t take just incredible. [Editor’s note: See shine, wrote the following highly services research at the American 26 miles of running anymore) and "Roar Lion Roar” in “Around the interesting reflections and com- College of Radiology. Grad school definitely have slowed down. Quads.”] And for the swimmers, at ments: (for me, Columbia, I’m proud to One daughter-in-law (a Columbia the recent Ivy League champion- “On the family front, profes- say) brainwashes the susceptible College alum, to boot) has recently ship, Columbia finished third be- sionally and personally, it’s been into thinking the object of profes- taken up jogging and now has hind Princeton and Harvard with a an event-filled few years since our sional life is to write scholarly lured me into entering races with fabulous third day of the event. 40th reunion. articles. After a less research-y her. I haven’t raced in the last few John Roy reported he ran into “I’d planned to attend the initial career, I’ve been doing years, but this should be fun as Pete Benitez, a State Superior reunion, but my father was gravely that like mad and am now up to a new inter-generational family Court judge for 15 years, but then ill and, in fact, died two weeks later. something more than 200 papers activity. We’re entered in the West didn’t report anything else. I as- At first I wasn’t too disturbed — of which I’m author or co-author. Point Triathlon this summer, and sume the collision was amiable. he’d reached 90 in good mental (The obsession finally is easing; I’m looking forward to beating all Hollis Petersen and his wife, Ann, and physical health and was ready I’ve ceased exact counting.) For those enormously athletic Army spend their winters in Islamorada, to quit. But he was one of the few several years, I’ve had an academic cadets — if they’ll divide my time in the Florida Keys, to get out of people I talked with in depth and appointment (adjunct) at Yale, by three to reflect the reality that the frigid north, and their summers looked to for advice, and before and two or three years ago was I’m three times as old as they are.” in Weekapaug, R.I., where Hollis long, I found myself much more promoted to full professor. So I’ve Jonathan’s e-mail address is is involved in local land trust troubled than I’d expected to be. satisfied a lifetime ambition to be [email protected]. activities. He claims to be busier in The Jewish prayer one says in mem- an Ivy League professor, albeit of a We recently received the sad news “retirement” than when he was on

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the clock and to be having much Bloomberg writers I came to know credits on page 116. to an article on [Attorney General] more fun! over the years.” I asked Bill for an insider’s Eric Holder [’73, ’76L]. For some Hollis, I like snow but the Keys Bill added: “I had two houses, view of the insider’s article. He bizarre reason, though, I was listed sound perfect. See you at a football two kids, two cars, two dogs and responded: “Working with Jon as living in Chevy Chase, Md. game this year, I hope. two wives, so I didn’t need any- Peters highlighted the great irony (where I’ve never been) instead of I spoke to Seth Weinstein, who thing else. All I needed was an in- of prestige education: Here was Adamant, Vt. (where I’ve been for was biking down the West Side teresting new challenge. And that’s a literally illiterate hairdresser almost 40 years). I’d like to assure to the Battery and back — sounds what I got. Today, I write a lengthy who had gone to reform school my ’69 friends that I haven’t gone like he took Tom Sanford’s advice column every day for Bloomberg with a glittering career and social anywhere.” from our reunion luncheon. News describing the prior day’s life that most Columbians would I agreed to run this correction, I recently spent a few days in events in 20 or so bankruptcy reor- have died for. Of course, he didn’t as long as it came with some news. Washington, D.C., with a number ganizations. If you want to know appreciate a bit of it; that’s where Rick writes, “Happy to oblige: of state treasurers who are clearly what’s happening in the bank- our education comes in, providing In other news, in December my focused on the impact of their short- ruptcy and turnaround community, context and perspective. If we ran wife, Andrea Serota, and I sold fall in revenues on their respective my column is the place to go. It’s a Columbia Pix, we would enjoy it our one-screen art house, The state budgets and programs. Fasci- privilege to work for Bloomberg, totally. In our dreams ... I’m just Savoy Theater. Times have been nating to hear their views. I guess the financial news and informa- starting a new book on 1980s Hol- increasingly tough in the art film the cherry blossoms will be out by tion service owned by New York lywood barbarian producers called world (and especially with only the time you read this. City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Moneywood. It should explain once one screen). Just being a local I continue to be busy at work which is the leader in supply- and for all why movies have gotten institution does not pay the bills. and was looking forward to the ing information for Wall Street. It so terrible. I’m also working on a We count ourselves fortunate that opera this weekend as I write this. gives me a platform for telling the long-term project on Harry Win- in these times, we were able to find Hope you are all well and enjoying financial community what’s going ston, which has taken me around an enthusiastic buyer who wants the spring weather. A number of on with sick and dying companies.” the world several times meeting to carry on the tradition. We will be you have promised updates, so Bill never passes up an opportu- princes, tycoons, oil sheikhs and taking more time to enjoy the glori- soon your promissory notes are nity to put in a marketing plug arms dealers, who were Winston’s ous Vermont outdoors and will be coming due. Looking forward to for Bloomberg News (as this item clientele. If a Saudi King bought a spending more time with our first hearing from you. shows), which he called the “Rolls $1 million necklace for one of his grandchild, Miriam. I’ll be keeping Royce of financial reporting.” The wives, he had to buy equivalents a foot in the film world; I’ve been Bloomberg terminal, according to for all of them. That’s how Winston asked to teach a course on Alfred Michael Oberman Bill, “has everything Wall Street got rich as Croesus. Movie stars Hitchcock at nearby Burlington Kramer Levin Naftalis & needs or wants, except pornog- rarely bought jewels, except for Liz College this fall (bringing back 69 Frankel raphy.” (For those of us testing Taylor. They just borrowed them. fond memories of the New Yorker 69 1177 Avenue of the Bloomberg Law, Bill’s last comment “The first star I met was Paul and Thalia theaters). Last summer, Americas comes as a disappointment.) Newman, when he came to speak I arranged two readings for Mark New York, NY 10036 Learning about Bill’s work for at Ferris Booth Hall. I was gratified Rudd at local bookstores for his moberman@ Bloomberg led me to check in with at how short he was. None of the recent book, Underground: My Life kramerlevin.com Robert Friedman, also now with stars I’ve encountered were as with SDS and the Weathermen. We Bloomberg, to ask about his current charismatic as some of our best had a grand time catching up; it Talk about running into news. I job and how it is different from his teachers, like Jim Shenton [’49] and was the first time we’ve had more attended a reception for users of prior jobs. From Robert: “I am now Nathan Gross. Talk about show- than two minutes together since Bloomberg Law, a new legal an editor-at-large at Bloomberg men. The interesting thing about before ‘the events of ’68.’ ” research tool that I have been test- News in New York. I joined the being at Columbia when we were This issue appears as the cur- ing, and Bill Rochelle spotted me company in April 2008, right after was being torn between joining the rent Columbia College Fund year and came by to say hello. Bill now the collapse of Bear Stearns, and Establishment and tearing it down. draws to a close. Reading CCT works for Bloomberg News, and have been involved in coverage “Speaking of Establishment, in leads most classmates to recall naturally I asked him to provide of the financial crisis ever since. I my view, Columbia’s great image their days at the College and what some details. Bill switched careers edit longer pieces and projects that weakness is its failure to promote is special about them — the read- after 35 years as a bankruptcy run on the Bloomberg terminal, in its Ivy ‘brand,’ e.g., the first Lion ings, the teachers, the activities, the lawyer to become a columnist for Bloomberg Markets magazine and in the White House is infinitely friendships, the time of growth, Bloomberg News in New York. now also in Bloomberg Business more identified as a Harvard Law the campus and more. If reflect- Raised in Texas, Bill came to New Week. What’s different? Working man than as a Columbian. Out ing makes you feel like part of the York for college and never left after for a media company that is actu- here in PR-land, I see lots of stars graduating from the Law School. ally expanding and truly global.” but rarely am invited to snort coke “I bought a big co-op in Manhattan Another news lead came in with Lindsay Lohan. My main dirt cheap and didn’t want to pay the mail, by way of the March cachet with the glitter set is not as What’s Your Story? capital gains taxes, so I stayed,” 2010 issue of Vanity Fair, featuring a Columbia man or a best-selling Let your classmates know Bill said. Bill Stadiem’s insider tale of his author, but as a restaurant critic. about your family, work, Bill spent most of his 35 years as involvement with the Jon Peters Celebrities, for all their thinness, travels or other news. a bankruptcy lawyer as a partner book project — a tell-all memoir are obsessed with eating out. I’m in the New York office of Houston- of a “half-Cherokee hairdresser” getting nostalgic for Chock Full Send us your Class Notes! based Fulbright & Jaworski. Al- who became a film producer and O’Nuts.” E-MAIL to the address at though the firm was “wonderful,” then famously, but unsuccessfully, Bill’s article is a great read; the top of your column, or to the work was routine after so long. co-head of Columbia Pictures. The my favorite sentence is “Peter’s [email protected]. “The only thing to change was the book was to be titled Studio Head, warp-speed ride from hairdresser names of the clients. The problems which Bill’s article says was a to producer to studio head made MAIL to the address at the were always the same, and no one “triple entendre.” (The first two are a business built on Schadenfreude top of your column. is ever happy with the outcome of obvious; as to the third, Bill told me apoplectic with jealousy.” (Paging a bankruptcy case,” he added. In that Peters is “first and foremost a through Vanity Fair led me to dis- FAX to Class Notes Editor the mid-1990s, Bill started writing a hairdresser” who “re-coiffed the cover a new line of clothing called at 212-851-1950. daily synopsis of major bankruptcy editors” they pitched.) Bill’s article, “Gap 1969”; how nice to have Class Notes received by cases, which he sent to his firm’s in turn, is called “Studio Head: The items ready-made for our class.) May 10 will be eligible clients and friends. “I had a fantasy Greatest Story Never Sold! The And, lastly, I also got news for publication in the about turning my newsletter into Tell-All Memoir that Hollywood because of a factual error. Rick a business,” Bill said, and “the fan- Killed.” A photo of Bill, with Pe- Winston wrote: “Last month, CCT July/August CCT. tasy turned into reality, thanks to ters, is included with the author’s printed a letter of mine responding

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Kenny Greenberg ’72 Brightens the World with Neon

B y Ka t i e Mel o n e ’01J

nside his squat Long Island ed to read and study matter first employee, another neon his guitar, drew cartoons on the City studio, surrounded by and energy “from both a phys- sign-maker. walls of his dorm (including a machinery, remnants of ics and metaphysics point of “We made glancing contact satiric take on the inhabitants, he art exhibits past and bright view,” he explained. “And the in the ’80s. I found out he was says) and chased girls at Barnard. Isigns that read “Watneys on nature of light plays a strong doing stuff in neon and I seem “In terms of putting him into Tap” and “Pabst Blue Ribbon role in both realms.” to recall that, at the time, he a category, he was a sensitive Beer,” Kenny Greenberg ’72 Around 1980, Greenberg’s was only beginning to go pro- guitar strummer but with a po- passes a long, thin glass tube then-girlfriend noticed an ad fessional, and in my eyes, it etic attitude liberally — unusu- through a flame and bends it for a neon course. It had never was a sideline of his,” recalls ally liberally — leavened with like a pretzel. occurred to him that humans Peter Frank ’72, an art critic humor,” Frank says. For decades, Greenberg has created neon; he assumed a and friend from Columbia who A mediocre engineering worked this highly specialized machine manufactured the became a roommate after student early on, Greenberg craft, creating neon signs that signs he admired. “For a bright graduation. “I think he was transferred to the College and have graced Broadway stages, guy, I wasn’t very bright,” he doing something with kids or threw himself into his liberal popular television show sets says, then chuckles. When “I adolescents, and I thought that arts studies, fondly recalling and high-end retail stores. classes with Kenneth His work combines ele- Koch, considered one of ments of science, art, elec- the great poets of the tronics and design. Among New York school of poetry, his peers, Greenberg’s two- and Stanley Schachter, a man operation, Krypton noted social psychologist. Neon, has gained a reputa- Greenberg graduated with tion for high-quality work a B.A. in psychology, and in a field that has waned two years later, an M.A. in as few forefathers of the education and psychology business passed down from Teachers College. their trade. Greenberg, 58, Of their time at the was drawn to the field in school, Frank says, “We his late 20s as a creative knew that it was both outlet when he realized he a unique opportunity to was unfulfilled in the edu- explore the world and a cation field. unique moment in which While he is a commer- to do so. And that is the cial success in design and general context for how restoration of neon signs — Kenny found himself gravi- Greenberg designed neon tating toward this neon art for the 2009 Tony awards, and neon craft.” and for movies such as Men Greenburg’s first big in Black and stores such as show was Miss Saigon. He Chanel — he still sees his has since created neon for work primarily through the Kenny Greenberg ’72 in his workshop in Long Island City, Queens. popular productions such Photo: Katie Melone ’01J prism of art. as Victor/Victoria, Saturday “It’s visual music, really,” Night Fever and Spring he says, standing at his work- learned it was something that was pretty cool, but I never fol- Awakening, and the movie Six bench. was made by hand, a light bulb lowed up on it. Next thing you Degrees of Separation, among And he looks the part of van- lit in my head.” know … he is the leading neon others. guard artist or musician. On this Greenberg found a haven craft person for the design and The work can be all-consum- day, he’s wearing a black t-shirt taking classes at the New York performing arts in America.” ing. “If I have a day when I’m and beat-up black Levis, his hair Experimental Glass Workshop, The son of a chemist and the agitated, there’s a much higher a mop of salt and pepper curls now known as Urban Glass. owner of an employment agen- chance that my work will have and his black eyebrows bushy “I was very lucky,” he says. “I cy, Greenberg was born in 1950 cracked,” he says. “It’s literally and unkempt. A New Yorker for had some very creative people in Brooklyn. His family lived in stored what I’ve put into it.” 30 years, Greenberg moved to around me.” Flatbush until he was 11, when But he achieves a certain Long Island City in 1988, well Greenberg flourished and they moved to Englewood, N.J. Zen while in his studio. “When before it became fashionable. eventually set out on his own, Greenberg entered Columbia I’m working with glass,” he Greenberg came to neon founding Krypton Neon, creating in 1968. “There was all this radi- says, “I’m in a nice relaxed after a brief stint working in the first neon Web site (www. cal stuff going on,” he says. He state, and I enjoy it.” education for the Jewish Child neonshop.com) and settling in vividly remembers a sea of stu- Care Association of New York. his studio in Long Island City. dents lining Broadway during a Katie Melone ’01J is a free- Unhappy in his work, he start- About 10 years ago, he hired his protest. Meanwhile, he played lance journalist in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Columbia community, show your researcher, lab tech, high school Dominion. Press in 1991. Moving to the East active connection by supporting chemistry teacher). In a move that According to The New York Times, Village after leaving Harvard, Lisa the College. We really would like probably would have surprised March 4, 2010, “Now make room established the first of her network to increase the participation rate Alan and certainly surprised my for ‘prehab’: of clinics providing pre-rehabili- for the fund: Any amount from a family and friends, I went to med “Prehab made its debut on tation services to the children of new donor would be greatly ap- school. The oldest student in my February 25, the handiwork of rock stars, investment bankers, real preciated. Of course, the more our med school class, residency and Glasgow Rose, a commenter on estate magnates and other wealthy classmates give, the more that can fellowship, I am probably one of Gawker, after a publicist for Charlie individuals. In 2004, the annual be of immediate help to the current the only Class of ’70 grads still pay- Sheen announced that the star of revenue of Pre-Hab, Inc. (‘So THEY student body. Send your donation ing off recent student loans. I hope Two and a Half Men was entering re- won’t f[*] up the way YOU did.’), to Columbia College Fund, Colum- that many more classmates will hab as a ‘preventative measure.’ ... of which Lisa is the CEO, was over bia Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th show up for this year’s reunion Gawker wrote a satirical post defin- $200 million, and the company’s St., 3rd Fl., MC 4530, New York, than we have seen in years past. I ing prehab as a vehicle for celebrity stock is traded on the New York NY 10025, and make a note that would be happy to hear from class- spin. ‘Get the “rehab” career bump Stock Exchange. Her second book, your contribution was prompted mates/friends. My e-mail address without actually being an addict,’ Twelve Steps for Tots, published in by reading CCT. You also can give is [email protected].” Gawker wrote. 1998, was an international best via credit card at www.college. David Lehman reports: “My “After being picked up by a num- seller, and has been translated into columbia.edu/giveonline. book, A Fine Romance: Jewish ber of blogs, ... prehab quickly mov- more than a dozen languages. ... ” Songwriters, American Songs, was ed to mainstream news outlets ... ” Just one of the many ways our published in October. I have given Reading the article, I immedi- class was and is ahead of its time. REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 presentations based on it in New ately remembered “prehab” from Ron adds that his band, Jersey Alumni Office Contacts York, Washington, Atlanta and an excerpt Ron Bass sent me years Petroleum (see January/February Alumni Affairs Stella Miele-Zanedis Chicago, and in the next weeks ago, in communication about the 2009 Class Notes), will release its [email protected] and months, I will be doing the class e-newsletter that I was then first CD, Living on Embassy Row, 212-851-7846 same in London, Palm Beach and writing (and may revive). So I later this year. Development Heather Hunte San Francisco.” contacted Ron, who confirmed that Richard Hsia sends this report: [email protected] Dr. Mike Passow is completing he had coined the word, and here “While the New Year of the Tiger 212-851-7957 his 40th year as an earth science is his report: (including the Siberian snow tiger) Leo G. Kailas educator, and his term as president “‘Prehab’ appears in one of the started on Valentine’s Day this Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt of the National Earth Science fictional stories in my book, The year, it is evident that the ground- 70 885 Third Ave, 20th Fl. Teachers Association. He orga- Velveeta Underground, which was hog Punxsutawney Phil was so 70 New York, NY 10022 nizes monthly programs that bring published during the weekend right when he saw his shadow and [email protected] research scientists at Columbia’s of the blizzard in February 2006. predicted a long winter to come. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observa- I seem to recall first using it in a “Despite an epic snowstorm that This is my second column as class tory together with class teachers. piece I wrote, probably in 2000, closed all classes at Columbia (ex- correspondent, and I encourage all Next August, Mike will present a and certainly not later than 2001.” cept B-School), the Columbia Lions classmates to send me updates. I workshop about climate change My interpretation of Ron’s waged a see-saw basketball battle also urge all Class of ’70 mem- at a conference in Iguassu Falls, tongue-in-cheek style is to present against the visiting Penn Quakers bers to come to our 40th reunion Brazil. During most months, you a mass of detail with items increas- on February 26 down under at from Thursday, June 3–Sunday, might see Mike in his blue kayak ingly being out of place. Here is the Levien Gymnasium in the Dodge June 6. The events kick off on on the Hudson River. prehab excerpt I remembered: Physical Fitness Center. Both teams Thursday with a with a tour of Geoff Zucker reports: “I practice “Preceded by Zorro, her long- played hard-nosed, tenacious man- the High Line and a cocktail party gastroenterology in a five-man haired dachshund, Dr. Lisa Cov- to-man defenses that thwarted the at the Gaslight’s G2 Lounge. Our group in Western Massachusetts erdale breezed into Lotus Club on other side again and again. Or both distinguished classmate Dr. Mark (Amherst), home or near to five Clinton Street precisely at noon teams can’t shoot. The game was Pruzansky will host the Friday major schools, and married a nurse, for our 15 minute interview that close all the way, with leads chang- night class reception at his Park now associate professor of nursing had been scheduled six weeks in ing myriad times, until, at the very Avenue apartment. The Saturday at UMass. Two children later, we’re advance and confirmed by email last, Columbia won 56–55 with a activities will include lectures, empty-nesters and happy to visit yesterday afternoon. Dressed in turnaround, seemingly no-look courses, a wine tasting and a class the boys in Brooklyn and Boston.” a turquoise Western shirt with 17-foot jumper by 6-foot-7 forward dinner. At our 40th reunion dinner Lawrence Rosenwald reports: guitars on the front, tight white low Brian Grimes ’11, who, ironically, on Saturday, we will be honoring “Cambridge University Press slung jeans and black and white hails from Philadelphia. The home the Ivy Champion basketball team. published my Multilingual America: checked Vans sneakers, her look crowd went wild. If you haven’t registered, do Language and the Making of American resonated with that of the early 80s “Among those enjoying the so now: http://reunion.college. Literature in 2008, and my Library Lisa Coverdale, co-founder with her game and rejoicing in Columbia’s columbia.edu. of American edition of Emerson’s sister Laurel of the The Astralettes, triumph were Hillary and Dick My Bronx Science classmate journals is due out soon. Our twin a self-described folkabilly band Fuhrman, Bob Gailus (who still and friend, Paul Rosen, who has daughters recently turned 30 and that soared into the stratosphere could improve the BB team), led an interesting life, reports on celebrated over high tea in London. on the wings of their fluke hit Chris Moriarty and his son, James his latest — and very successful April marked the 23rd anniversary ‘Mandalas on My Pillow,’ and (who’s smarter and better-looking — career: “Well into my fifth or of our becoming war tax resisters then disintegrated abruptly due to than any Columbia professor) and sixth career now as a primary care on grounds of conscience.” what was described in the press as yours truly. Andy Arbenz said doctor in the South Bronx, not far ‘creative differences’ between the he was coming, but he must have from where I grew up. Interesting, sisters. Having graduated from UC been sitting with the Baby Blues that I responded to a challenge Jim Shaw Berkeley summa cum laude with a Band on the other side of the court. from Alan Solinger, a fellow 139 North 22nd St. dual major in philosophy and psy- “Before the game, we gathered Furnald denizen and then and 71 Philadelphia, PA 19103 chology before embarking upon a for lively conversation and ham- now physician of some fame in 71 musical career, after The Astralettes burgers, etc., up (but still under- [email protected] ID/HIV research, who suggested broke up in 1984 Lisa decided to ground) in the Lou Gehrig Lounge, at the ’70 class reunion dinner we William P. Barr, attorney general continue her studies, and received a whose picture windows overlook both attended back in 1990 with a under President George H.W. Bush, Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard the court. There, we were regaled certain flippancy that I should go former general counsel of Verizon in 1990. Her dissertation (Intersect- by Columbia’s cheerful cheerlead- to medical school next (since I had and currently a director of Time ing Imperatives: How Sexual Preference ers and dazzling dance team. And had so many other careers: first Warner, Selected Funds and Holcim and Breeding Propensity Drive the Life to get to the gym, everyone has to grade teacher, translator, police of- US, has been elected a director of Choices of American Women) was pass by and admire Greg Wyatt’s ficer, parole officer, bounty hunter, energy producer and transporter published by Oxford University Scholar’s Lion sculpture, which

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CC ’71 helped make happen, and couple met at Columbia at the that delivers premium wealth this pig sounds an awful lot like which was crowned and crested by beginning of Margot’s first year. and life management services to the old phrase “shacking up.” Or, freshly fallen snow. Josh is the son of Hillel Marans individual clients. Elder Services as the New York Post put it, allow- “We are beginning to ramp up ’76. “We had around 25 people manages investment portfolios for ing couples to “live in sin on their and rev up for our 40th (believe on the dance floor singing Roar, its clients as well as coordinating parents’ dime.” Now that sounds it or not!) reunion, taking place in Lion, Roar and Who Owns New the support services that clients familiar! [Editor’s note: The plan June 2011, more than a year away, York? (having made sure that the need as they advance through was not adopted for 2011.] yet not all that far off. band knew both — they actually the aging process, helping them Browsing a recent issue of The “We will bring together ’71 worked Who Owns New York? into maintain their independence as Record (another Columbia publica- classmates sometime this spring, Jewish dancing [music]). It’s also long as possible. Any classmates tion), a picture of Sharif Abdus- as our class’ reunion planning and worth noting that my daughter, facing these issues with family can Salaam with Phil Schaap ’73 preparation get serious, and we Joanna ’05, also is married to a contact Barry at barry.a.kelner@ jumped out. It seems that Phil was build momentum. Please watch College alum, David Parker ’04. wellsfargo.com; he’ll be happy to being honored at a gala dinner for notices about this next event. They, however, didn’t begin dat- address questions or concerns. celebrating his 40th year hosting For now, any classmates with any a jazz show on WKCR-FM, and interest in joining our reunion Sharif was there as a fellow WKCR committee or coming to our 40th Barry Kelner ’73 was named team lead for Wells host. By day, Sharif is a superinten- reunion, please contact Jim Shaw dent at the NYC Transit Authority. ([email protected]), Dick Fargo Elder Services in Minnesota. His wife, Sheila Abdus-Salaam ’74 Fuhrman ([email protected]) Barnard, ’77L, is a justice at the NYS or me ([email protected]). We Supreme Court in lower Manhat- look forward to your ideas, help ing until after college, and had Nick Lubar is in Ashiya, Japan, tan. (Makes me wonder if she ever and participation.” graduated together from the Ra- on temporary assignment. Ashiya, lunches with Shirley Kornreich, Had a great time at the last re- maz Upper School in Manhattan, he says, is the “Beverly Hills of another NYS Supreme Court judge union and it was wonderful to see so Columbia can’t take more than Japan … where my Honda Accord and wife of Ed Kornreich.) so many classmates. Make your minimal credit for the match.” stands out from the BMWs and My son, David, is about to grad- plans now to attend in 2011. Greg Vitercik notes, “Our Mercedeses. Life is quite different uate from a NYC private school that daughter, Ellen, somehow managed here, but easy (once you break now has kids from kindergarten to to get from pre-school to her last se- through the language barrier) and eighth grade. A few months ago, I Paul S. Appelbaum mester of high school in something very safe.” was at a cocktail party for eighth- 39 Claremont Ave., #24 like the blink of an eye. She visited Nick’s daughter is a sophomore grade parents where the school an- 72 New York, NY 10027 a friend at Barnard earlier this fall at Occidental, giving her the oppor- nounced the plans for its new high 72 and when she got home discovered tunity to follow in our President’s school. Imagine my surprise when [email protected] that she had stayed in the dorm footsteps (and transfer to CC!). He Larry Marner appeared before me. For this issue, we have both profes- (Reid) — on the same floor — hopes to be back sailing on Lake Ends up that Larry’s firm, Marner sional and personal items of note. where her mother, Carol Murray Erie by June. Architecture, was selected unani- Ron Weigel, a biology major at ’73 Barnard, had lived her first year That’s all we wrote. Not enough mously to design the 60,000-square- Columbia, is professor of biostatistics (a newly established music interest written response to my desperate foot school. I guess it shouldn’t and epidemiology in the College of hall in 1969). She loves the city, and pleas for notes; need notes, please. have been such a surprise. His firm Veterinary Medicine at the Univer- Barnard is high on her list.” May we live to 120. has done expansions for Chapin, sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Greg was promoted last fall to Brearly, NYU and other prestigious He recently was appointed associate full professor at Middlebury, where NYC private schools. editor of the international journal he has been teaching in the music Fred Bremer From the moors of England came Preventive Veterinary Medicine. When department since 1986. “Carol 532 W. 111th St. this e-mail from Les Bryan, mapping he is not making decisions on has become an endorphin addict, 74 New York, NY 10025 the course of his careers during publications or teaching statistics to spending hours every day at the 74 the past four decades: “After CC, I [email protected] graduate students, Ron and his wife, gym and taking 10-mile walks learned at Columbia’s Journalism Susana, spend their evenings teach- every afternoon, no matter what The American lexicon seems to School that I didn’t want to be a ing and dancing Argentine tango. the weather. Her ‘music interests’ morph at an increasing speed. A journalist, so I became a naval officer. H. “Hap” Aram Veeser’s new have shifted from classical to death phrase that seems awkward when After eight years of the sailor’s life, book, Edward Said: The Charisma metal.” first introduced soon becomes during which Sue Horton and I mar- of Criticism, the first biography of Finally, we received the sad commonplace. A few of you might ried, I decided I didn’t want to be a Columbia’s late University Profes- news that Glenn R. Switkes, who remember the uproar when the ship driver anymore, so I became sor Edward Said, was published in was an environmentalist, died in then new gym was named the a teacher, first in the United States March. In the publisher’s words, São Paulo, Brazil, on December 21. “Dodge Physical Fitness Center” and then with the Department of “Drawing on what he learned [Editor’s note: An obituary will be around the time we graduated. Defense Schools in England. After 16 over 35 years as Said’s student published in a future issue.] This brought on jeers that Ham- years of teaching, I decided I wanted and skeptical admirer, Veeser uses ilton Hall should be dubbed the to be a curriculum specialist, so I did never-before-published interviews, “Hamilton Mental Fitness Center.” that for three years before moving debate transcripts and photo- Barry Etra Around the same time the head of into school administration. I now am graphs to discover a Said who 1256 Edmund Park Dr. NE the typing pool at my part-time job the principal of a pre-kindergarten- had few inhibitions and loathed 73 Atlanta, GA 30306 left to become the head of another grade 12 Department of Defense conventional routine. He stood 73 firm’s “word processing depart- school in Yorkshire.” [email protected] for originality, loved unique ideas, ment.” Roars of laughter could be Les and his wife have two wore marvelous clothes and fought One of the hardest things for me is heard above the clattering of our children: Colin (a submarine officer with molten fury. For 20 years he dealing with our classmates’ pass- electric typewriters. Obviously, in the U.S.) and Rachel (a nurse embraced and rejected, at the same ing. We’ve had several recently, yet both terms have grown to become and yoga instructor in Yorkshire). time, not only the West, but also lit- I don’t think of us as old, although mainstream. When I asked Les if he had finally erary theory and the PLO. At last, I could be swayed to the verity These tales of yesteryear came to found the “right” job, he replied, his disgust with business-as-usual of our being “middle-aged.” Of mind when reading a recent copy “It is for now, just as the others politics and criticism marooned course, that would mean we have of Spectator, which carried a front were then. I’m a one-woman man, him on the sidelines of both.” still one half-life to go … page article on Columbia’s plans but not a one-job man.” Congratulations to Steven J. Barry Kelner was named team to create “gender-neutral housing” Stay tuned, sounds like there is Schacter, whose daughter, Margot lead for Wells Fargo Elder Services in certain dorms that “allow for still time for a few more chapters in ’10, married Joshua Kaplan- in Minnesota. Barry, a 25-year mixed-gender doubles.” No matter this story! Marans ’08 in September. The Wells man, heads up the group how much lipstick you put on it, A press release arrived telling of

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a visit of two Columbia “double al- for atheist, agnostic and question- forth business ethics guidelines and ums.” Vic Fortuno ’77L invited U.S. ing students at one of the nation’s policies, as well as on a five-rabbi Attorney General Eric H. Holder largest public universities. It also RCA committee that drafted the Jr. ’73, ’76L, to the Legal Services strives to promote understanding organization’s proposed convention Corp.’s celebration of Black History and tolerance of a large and grow- resolutions. He serves on the Board Month. Holder is quoted as saying ing segment of American society of Directors of the American Jewish that “the LSC has proven to be that is often the target of prejudice. Committee of Orange County, the one of our nation’s most effective More about the activities of the Board of Directors of the Hillel Col- agents for meaningful change.” As chaplaincy can be found at http:// lege Foundation of Orange County mentioned in an earlier column, Vic rutgershumanist.org. and the Orange County Board of is president of the Legal Services The chaplaincy is very personal Rabbis. Dov has published two Corp. to Gary, touching his deeper values books (Jews for Nothing: On Cults, That old television classic My and allowing him to make connec- Intermarriage and Assimilation and Three Sons has nothing on Chris- tions with new people. Gary and General Sharon’s War Against Time topher Puca. Chris recently wrote his wife, Tamar, are still in the same Magazine: His Trial and Vindica- in to give us an update on his four jobs at Rutgers; son Zach ’12 is at tion, a study of the 1985 libel trial sons: Jesse (29), a photographer; the College. in Manhattan), several hundred Jordan (28), a marathon running Ceyhan, Turkey’s main oil trans­ opinion pieces through the years (in “free spirit”; Zachary (27), who has port port, appointed New York publications including The Weekly left Citigroup to do premed; and Attorney Melih (Mel) Dogan to Standard, National Review Online, The Lt. Col. Eliot Goldman ’79 (left) Alex (19), who recently survived expand and accelerate develop- Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles and New York Governor David Pa- a traumatic brain injury and has ment of the city’s growth as an Times and the Jerusalem Post), and terson ’77 got together during the had a miraculous recovery. Chris’ international petroleum hub. Mel two major scholarly articles that commissioning of the USS New day, though, is nothing like that of will assist the municipality in have won national awards in the York on November 7. The ship is the dad on the TV show. He is an promoting the advantages of doing fields of American Jewish history built with 7½ tons of steel from internist in Tucson with a practice business in Ceyhan in the petro- and American business law. Dov’s the World Trade Center. that concentrates on chronic pain leum and ancillary industries. Mel three daughters all graduated from management, hospice and pallia- has more than 25 years experience Barnard. Dov blogs at www.rabbi tive care. Despite the emotional and success in identifying investors dov.com. composing, performing and more. challenges of his work, Chris says and funding for Turkish projects Art Garfunkel ’65 sang that Susan is a junior in high school that “medicine became the equiva- and companies. He predicts that he was “one step away from a and a straight-A student. Youngest, lent of a Zen practice to me … that there will be a “Ceyhan Oil Price” shoeshine, two steps away from Sally, is a freshman at Choate, a no matter how much you give, you monitored by the industry in the the county line ... just trying to leading novice oarsman and a receive even more back.” same way that the Platt and Rot- keep the customer satisfied ...” great debater. Charlie’s wife of 28 At the end of his lengthy e-mail, terdam benchmarks are applied. and that perfectly sums up what years, Fern, continues to put up Chris added, “I hope that all of you While you may have known him Charlie Lindsay has been doing with him; it continues to amaze have had the fun that I have had in as Dov Fisch in our college days, for the past three years. He formed and thrill him. As the T-shirts say, watching the evolution of our own he now identifies as Rabbi Dov Fis- a new company to work strategic “Life is Good.” selves as the years go by. And for cher. Dov has pursued careers both joint ventures between the United The Global Alliance for TB Drug these very instances of evolution, I in the Orthodox Jewish rabbinate States and China, and it has driven Development (TB Alliance) has ap- am thankful.” and in secular law. After 10 years him to distraction! He says he has pointed Dr. Carl Mendel s.v.p. of Seems an apt summary of the research and development. He will general theme of these columns guide all research and develop- over the past few years. Gary Brill ’75 co-founded the Humanist Chaplaincy ment activities as the organization There you have it. College kids advances the largest portfolio of “shacking up,” wives that lunch in at Rutgers at the beginning of this academic year. potential new tuberculosis drugs their “robes” and a lot of class- in history, which include three mates sharing their vignettes. All clinical-stage compounds. Carl of this makes up the mosaic that as a pulpit rabbi at synagogues clients and transactions that offer joins the TB Alliance from Syn- we call the Class of ’74 of Colum- in New Jersey and Los Angeles unbelievable upsides and clients vista Therapeutics, where he most bia College. (along with a two-year stint during who can drive one to drink with recently was chief medical officer. which he co-founded and lived the inability to get anything done. Carl has more than 15 years of with his family in Naveh Aliza, a Charlie is in the fourth year of experience in the pharmaceutical REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 new Jewish settlement in the West development on the Paramount industry, with significant research Alumni Office Contacts Bank, which he characteristically Pictures big feature based on and development expertise in Alumni Affairs Kimberly Peterson calls “liberated Samaria”), Dov Robert Ripley of Ripley’s Believe It a variety of therapeutic areas, [email protected] attended the UCLA School of Law, or Not fame, starring Jim Carrey especially in early- and late-stage 212-851-7872 where he was chief articles editor and directed by Chris Columbus. clinical development. Previously, Development Sam Boyer of UCLA Law Review. He clerked in Charlie hopes it will be in theatres Carl held positions at Merck, Knoll [email protected] the United States Court of Appeals around Christmas 2012. Charlie Pharmaceuticals (a division of 212-851-7452 and practiced complex civil litiga- continues to develop film projects BASF Pharma), Aventis Phar- Randy Nichols tion at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue with work focused on the race to maceuticals and Sanofi-Aventis. 503 Princeton Cir. and then at Akin Gump Strauss save Nome, Alaska, from diph- He earned an M.D. from UC San 75 Newtown Square, PA 19073 Hauer & Feld. Eight years ago, Dov theria (the amazingly heroic tale Diego and is board-certified in 75 synergized his two careers and now that is today commemorated by internal medicine, endocrinology [email protected] is congregational rabbi of Young the Iditarod) and the story of Jonas and metabolism. Before joining Gary Brill co-founded the Human- Israel of Orange County, based in Salk and the polio vaccine. Charlie the pharmaceutical industry, Carl ist Chaplaincy at Rutgers at the Irvine, Calif., and adjunct professor says: “Any angels out there should was assistant professor of medicine beginning of the current academic of California civil procedure and feel free to call! The red carpet walk at UC San Francisco, and he has year. Humanism is a non-theistic of complex torts at two Southern is pretty heady.” authored or co-authored more approach to life that affirms California law schools. Children: Michael finished at than 50 articles in leading scientific morality, personal fulfillment and More recently, Dov was named Yale, got a master’s at Oxford journals. the greater good of humanity. The to the National Executive Board of and is a first-year consultant at Yes, it is time for another other co-founder is the chaplain, the Rabbinical Council of America McKinsey. Maxwell is a senior in reunion. Plan to meet your class- Barry Klassel ’68. The chaplaincy and served on an eight-rabbi com- high school and looks to music mates, their families and Columbi- provides a welcoming community mittee of the RCA tasked to set colleges to fulfill his passion for ans from other years and schools

may/june 2010 61 class notes columbia college today on campus from Thursday, June Navy career is now retired, as is L. Dunoff) and The International While many of us are now at the 3–Sunday, June 6. We’ve planned every aircraft carrier on which Law of Economic Migration: Toward apex of our “careers” (and that is an exciting program of tours, semi- I’ve landed.” Ouch. (Mike served the Fourth Freedom. Joel has taught what Class Notes would have been nars, parties and dinners. You’ve for 18 years, incidentally, and has international law at The Fletcher about for the class of ’58 or ’68 when heard some already (Dead Head taken F-4s to mach 2.4.) Anyway, School of Law and Diplomacy at they hit the mid-50s) there is for us or not — we’re in for a treat!) and after spending most of 30 years Tufts for 20 years. “Two kids in a new dimension: kids, parents and should already have received regis- in Virginia Beach, Va., Mike has college,” he adds, and “one on the supporting our partners. And also tration packets. Please do plan to moved to Daniel Island, next door way (to college, that is). I like going working those 50 hours a week. join us. And, whether you can at- to Charleston, S.C., where he is a to Columbia for conferences and Note to everyone: I am not tend reunion or not, know that one principal in GPAllied, a new global seeing how nice everything is.” complaining at all. In fact there is of your classmates will be calling maintenance and reliability engi- Mark Sutton-Smith continues a freedom at this point in my life you to ask for a contribution to our neering and consulting company. as v.p. and CTO for the NBA, “fo- to prioritize and do what needs to anniversary gift to the Columbia His youngest daughter is also in cusing increasingly on the interna- be done without the guilt I always College Fund. When you get that Charleston, where she “is a fresh- tional market for the NBA, which had when I was younger that I was call, please be generous. Every dol- man at the Art Institute in the cul- grows steadily.” He reports that he missing something critical at work lar counts in supporting the young inary arts program. Downtown and his wife will be returning to when I was off doing the other men and women who will build Charleston is a great place to learn Manhattan next year, “preferably priority of the day. our futures as the leaders of tomor- how to be a chef. My middle to the Upper West Side,” when the But things do come at you furi- row and the next generation. daughter is off on a successful ca- second of his two daughters enters ously. My youngster (Joy, 16) has If you have not registered for reer as a professional dog handler college. Older daughter Olivia will been having some allergy issues Alumni Reunion Weekend, do so with a few top dogs nationally. be a senior at Barnard by then and, and she needs to go to the doctor now: http://reunion.college. You might have seen her at the dog at present, “coincidentally lives in frequently. My mom’s husband columbia.edu. show in Madison Square Garden my beloved 504 W. 110th St., where of the last 10 years passed away in February. And finally, my son I spent my undergraduate years.” peacefully at 92, and there were is almost two years out of Auburn Mark says that he “recently recon- lots of issues there to make sure Clyde Moneyhun and working for Lockheed Martin nected with Robert Martinez and my mom was doing OK. My eldest 76 Program in Writing and in logistics at its huge campus in would love to hear from others.” (Elana, 20) needs rides back and Rhetoric Fort Worth.” From Atlanta, Paul Winum forth to Clark in Worcester every 76 Serra Mall 450, Bldg. 460, Mike goes on to say, “I thor- writes, first, that it is getting close other weekend. My father has Room 223 oughly enjoy living on Daniel to 20 years that he has worked been recovering from a car crash in Stanford University Island and might have considered for a management consultancy Detroit, and there have been visits Stanford, CA 94305 moving here sooner if I’d known firm, RHR International, where he and calls to help his wife out there. [email protected] the ratio of women to men was recently was promoted to senior And my wife Marian ’77 Barnard’s 10:1. I still have my condo in Mi- partner and global practices leader; career has been taking off as a Robert Seigfried made full profes- ami for a ‘getaway,’ whether I want second, that he has been elected as professor at Yale, and she is often sor last fall in the Department of it or not! Couldn’t sell it in the cur- a fellow of the American Psycho- traveling around the world fixing Mathematics and Computer Sci- rent market if I wanted to, so just logical Association; and, third (but the environment and helping her ence at Adelphi University in Gar- enjoying an occasional getaway … apparently not in order of impor- students. den City, Long Island, and paused Maybe in 10 years.” tance), that while on vacation in So worrying, driving, helping, for a moment or two to enjoy it A loyal alum, Mike “makes it Hawaii last Christmas Eve, he got “even” doing the laundry and run- before diving back into classes and back to Homecoming every year engaged to Leila Pinto, managing ning the house now and then. This research. His wife, Katherine, was and runs across fraternity brothers director at Morgan Stanley Smith is all very meaningful and reward- one of about 2,500 people laid off and classmates each time.” He Barney. On top of all this, April ing stuff and I guess it gives real in one day from IndyMac Bank, also does what I should do, and marked “the 10th anniversary of an definition to being a person with but after about a year working at “participates in the Alumni Repre- annual golf outing I put together, responsibilities and roles beyond Chase, she is now at Guardhill sentative Committee interviewing The Dellhood Cup,” in which he the career. Financial in New York. Their son, local applicants to the College,” notes that “several CC alums have The other things we usually Jason (13) had his bar mitzvah last observing, “No way I could ever participated over the years: Dennis write about: work, hobbies, boards April; he will start Oceanside (L.I.) compete with the kids I’m meeting Gonzalez, Mike Weaver, Steve of directors, blogs ... you know, all H.S. in September — “whether or today.” Brandl, John Haggerty ’78, and the master of universe things we do, not OHS is ready for him.” Having retired in 2006 after John Pickering ’79.” seem to fade into the background Congratulations to Marc Good- working as a prosecutor in “three when juggling the real-world items. man, whose daughter, Morgan, different state attorneys’ offices in Oh, and I just ruptured my soon to graduate from the Puna- Florida,” Dean Tsourakis hung out Matthew Nemerson Achilles tendon playing racquet- hou School in Honolulu, has been his own shingle in Clearwater, spe- 35 Huntington St. ball and will be in a cast for six accepted early admission to the cializing in family law and criminal 78 New Haven, CT 06511 weeks; how do I fit that in? Class of ’14. law. “I have handled many cases 78 On the traditional job front, I am [email protected] that received prominent national having a blast working with many press on both sides of the criminal We have all been busy the past few of the candidates for governor in David Gorman cases. I am sure that you have read months, and another issue of CCT Connecticut and dealing with a lot 111 Regal Dr. about them or seen them on the has come and gone with no updates of interesting policy issues that are 77 DeKalb, IL 60115 news. I am happily married to the from any of you “50-somethings.” finally being taken seriously — lost 77 lovely Renee, and we reside in my However, if your life is at all like jobs, growth and technology. [email protected] hometown of Tarpon Springs. I am mine, I think the fact that we are in Did the young me assume he I was dismayed to learn that, in the very fortunate in that my private the midst of the so-called “sand- would be a candidate by now for January/February column, I mis- practice is doing well in these eco- wich” years may have something to governor himself? Sure. named Will Weaver, who wrote nomic times, knock on wood.” do with the silence out there. It’s not But the real me says this is OK, me good-humoredly to ask, “Who Did you know that Joel that Class Notes are not important, too. Bottom line, I am enjoying is William Wheaton, and how did Trachtman has published four it’s just that we have a lot going becoming an elder statesman he manage to steal my life? Will he books in the last two years? The on in our lives and we are clearly of my community and just feel pay my bills too?” Economic Structure of International pulled between many priorities. comfortable being the leader of Michael Aroney was almost Law; Developing Countries in the Assuming we are mainly in my family. It no longer seems odd equally bummed to see in the last WTO Legal System (with Chantal 50/50 relationships with our part- to be leading the Seder or giving CCT that a guy from the Class of ’80 P. Thomas); Ruling the World? ners and spouses, you are probably advice up, down and sideways to flew F-18s for the Marines, when Constitutionalism, International Law, a lot like me: juggling a lot of the kinfolk. “every airplane I flew during my and Global Governance (with Jeffrey complex family issues. Anyway, send me some stories

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about how you are adjusting to helps to educate people in protect- last day of our freshman year I Jeff Pundyk real life in your 50s. ing the Hudson River. Jonathan heard a crack! I hear that crack 81 20 E. 35th St., Apt. 8D writes for the Enviroblurb newspa- every Sunday when I see that oar. New York, NY 10016 per and has reported on New York Any relics from Columbia in 81 [email protected] Robert Klapper City’s water contamination issues. your house? Let me know. (And I 8737 Beverly Blvd., Ste 303 Jonathan, I remember drinking don’t mean a Barnard girl!) I’d like to pause from my usual 79 Los Angeles, CA 90048 that water, and my stomachache is snark to add my note of admira- 79 still there! tion and thanks to Brian Krisberg [email protected] REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 Jonathan is married to Cathy for all he’s done over the years for Alumni Office Contacts Gil Lancaster: “Still living in Sylvis, a PBK, Thomas Hunter the College. Brian was honored on Alumni Affairs Stella Miele-Zanedis Redding, Conn., with my wife, English Fellow and Blanche Colton March 3 with a John Jay Award for [email protected] Mary, and two children and am a Williams Fellow who earned her distinguished professional achieve- 212-851-7846 full-time cardiologist at Bridgeport B.A. in English literature and in the ment, in recognition of both his Development Sam Boyer Hospital (part of the Yale-New honors program from Hunter Col- professional accomplishments and [email protected] Haven Health System). There, I am lege and an M.A. from Columbia. his significant contributions to the 212-851-7452 the director of non-invasive cardi- “We have a lovely 15-year-old College. Since graduation, Brian ology, which means I run the echo daughter, Zoe, who attends Horace Michael C. Brown has been involved with the College lab and the cardiac nuclear testing Mann as a scholarship student, London Terrace Towers at almost every level: Alumni As- laboratory (you see, all the physics who has outstanding grades, who 80 410 W. 24th St., Apt. 18F sociation Board of Directors, Board and chemistry I suffered through made the varsity field hockey 80 New York, NY 10011 of Visitors, Columbia Athletics and at Columbia actually served a team this year and who recently [email protected] graduate chapters of both Sachems purpose after all!). I also am the as- attempted to make the varsity and Phi Gamma Delta. While sociate director of our Cardiology lacrosse team. Zoe has participated Spring is in the air, and baseball attending the Law School, Brian Fellowship Program (training new successfully in Model U.N. Com- and golf are in full swing. I have was the dorm counselor at Carman cardiologists). I am an assistant petitions, winning best delega- been to Robertson Field to see our Hall, including the period when clinical professor of medicine at the tion at the Princeton Model U.N. team play, and we have been very Columbia went co-ed. In addition Yale University School of Medicine competition with her partner and competitive this season. In fact, to volunteering his time, Brian (but still root for the Lions when winning outstanding delegation Eric Blattman, John McGuire, established the Krisberg Family they play the Bulldogs). with her partner most recently at Hal Robertson ’81E and I traveled Scholarship in honor of his parents, “Recently, I was elected the Con- the Harvard Model U.N. She also to Las Vegas to see the team play Arline and Norman. His profes- necticut Governor of the American studies the piano.” UNLV in March. We came home sional accomplishments are many, College of Cardiology and will Richard Perl is CAO for Terra- after taking one of four games including leadership roles at three serve on the ACC Board of Gover- Cycle (www.terracycle.net), which from a high-scoring UNLV team … of the most prestigious law firms nors beginning in 2011. collects non-recyclable packaging and what happens in Vegas stays in the country. He currently is a “I make it into the city and Morn- waste from more than 60,000 pro- in Vegas. partner at Sidley Austin. ingside Heights quite often, as my prietary locations throughout the The Football Golf Outing was Kevin Fay, who traveled from mother lives on Claremont Avenue. United States and turns that waste well attended by the Class of 1980, Virginia to New York for the Although the neighborhood has into new products and materials, with Scott Ahern, Eric Blattman, ceremony, reports: “The event was changed (no more TaKome, The keeping it from landfill. He lives Joe Ciulla, Shawn FitzGerald and held to a packed audience at Cip- Gold Rail, Mama Joy’s or West near Lincoln Center with his wife, me battling the Classes of ’78 and riani 42ns St., near Grand Central End), Tom’s is still there! daughter and son. ’81. Joe distinguished himself with Station. In an interesting display “Hope all is well with you.” Richard, what could you turn his sharp golf attire and almost hit of support, co-workers from all Gil, my stomachache is still there! my college diploma into? a fairway this year! three [of Brian’s] firms were in Robert S. Richman updates us. Robert C. Klapper: “I rowed on We had a great night making attendance, each vying to outdo He has “moved back to NYC and the Columbia freshman light- calls at my office for our reunion one another in applauding Brian has written a still-unpublished weight crew team … God, that and reunion gift. I want to thank for reaching this milestone. Brian’s third volume of poetry and still was a long time ago. At the top of Jeff Field, Ariel Teitel, Jim Ger- speech covered three decades of work[s] at home as a freelance the stairs in my house in Ventura kis, Bruce Paulsen, John Schutty life at Columbia, and it was well writer.” (where I surf every Sunday), there and David Leahy in D.C. for all received by the large audience. Robert, nothing in life is free. is a 12 ½-foot-long wooden oar of their help. We have a wonder- Joining Brian in celebrating this Partner Thomas Kligerman and from those days. The first day ful event planned from Thursday, honor were his lovely wife, Susan, the architectural firm Ike Kliger- at crew practice, the octogenar- June 3–Sunday, June 6 for our and their three children; his moth- man Barkley Architects have pub- ian manager of the boathouse Alumni Reunion Weekend, and er, Arline; and a large, apparently lished Houses, a first monograph told me a secret. The tradition we hope to see you there! intoxicated and boisterous group of the firm’s work, which draws at Columbia, and perhaps at the We are all counting the days until from Phi Gamma Delta. Members on 25 years of IKBA’s practice and other Ivy League schools, was the reunion. If you have not already of the Fijis present were Adel some 250 projects featuring 25 that if you cracked the wooden done so, please register at http:// Aslani-Far ’90, Adam Barrison ’91, houses across the country. oar, you got to keep it. I weighed reunion.college.columbia.edu. Michael Behringer ’89, Steve Cole- And speaking of housing, for 172 pounds at the time, and the There will be plenty of chances man ’83, Ed DeSear ’68, Eric Hopp the last 3 ½ years, Jonathan Rubin coach gave me two options: You to raise a glass with classmates as ’98, Tony Santos, Anthony Leitner has been a Guardian Ad Litem for can bulk up and gain 20 pounds well as take in the cultural offer- ’65, Peter Luccarelli ’78E, Marty NYC Civil Court Housing Part and and row heavyweight, but if you ings of New York City. The party- Moroney ’82, Bruce Sargent ’66, NYC Housing Authority. wanted to start in the first boat of ing formally starts on Thursday ’68 Business, Fred Wang ’95E and Jonathan represents disabled the lightweights, he would let me night with a cocktail reception Robert Yunich ’65.” seniors and disabled individuals weigh 154.9 pounds, the maximum hosted by David Leahy at the New Brian is a reminder that we on a fixed income at the NYC for the lightweight crew. Each day, York Athletic Club. On Saturday all can make a difference if we’re Civil Court Housing Part and at I went to practice and on some night, the Faculty Room at Low willing to look beyond ourselves, NYCHA Administrative Hearings. days, double practices (I’m tired Library will be ours for dinner, whether it be to the College or some He also is instrumental in obtain- just thinking of that). I would look followed immediately afterward other worthy cause or organization. ing grants enabling these families for the 89-year-old manager and by dancing and a champagne toast Jeff Gracer has found a way to to remain in their apartments. request the same oldest oar in the under the stars on Low Plaza. I am combine his professional life with When not advocating for the boathouse. I pulled on that oar definitely looking forward to seeing community service: “My wife and poor, Jonathan is helping the envi- for a whole year, rowing on the so many familiar faces and reliving I have become avid bikers and love ronment. He was president of New Harlem River watching floating our fond Columbia memories … [to] ride, [especially] the Transporta- York City Friends of Clearwater condoms, washing machines and and maybe a few that we might tion Alternatives century. I am a from 2007–09. The organization on one day, a corpse. And on the want to forget! regular bike commuter and stop

may/june 2010 63 class notes columbia college today only when it snows! I’m continuing that his oldest son, Michael, received was up to each of us to define the time to pole vault. I recently won my environmental law practice at his master’s in biomedical engineer- experience beyond the academics. the World Masters Pole Vault title Sive, Paget & Riesel, focusing in- ing from SUNY-Stony Brook in “Being in New York City made at the World Masters Track & Field creasingly on climate change issues, December. His second son, Chris, a huge and positive impact on my Championships held in Kamloops, and am involved in a significant graduated magna cum laude from college experience. Columbia was, Canada, in March.” pro bono project for the Rainforest the University of Massachusetts- is and always will be respected Well, I have to say, that’s really Alliance in Latin America. My old- Amherst with a B.A. in economics for the great education it offers. amazing! As a former track guy, est son is starting college in the fall. in February. His daughter, Lauren, But, what Columbia offered me the thought of dragging my 50- I tried unsuccessfully to convince a high school senior, will follow in extended beyond the classroom. year-old, angry, desk jockey butt him to consider Columbia, but he her brother’s footsteps at UMass, as During these years, I learned to be- around a track at full gallop is wanted a small, rural setting (Wil- she has been awarded a chancellor’s come independent, experienced the nothing short of frightening. The liams). The good news is that his scholarship to begin this fall. responsibilities of running a busi- idea of launching my carcass over best friend wisely chose to attend Charles Murphy, previously of ness on campus, understood the what looks to be a 15-foot-high bar Columbia!” Fairfield Greenwich Advisors and importance of teamwork through is inconceivable. Great job! Paul Marcovitch and his wife, now v.p. of Paulson & Co., a hedge the extracurricular activities I Christine Young, adopted Mali fund, has been appointed to the pursued and came to appreciate Marcovitch (f/k/a Hsiangyi Wu) board of Conseco, an insurance the enormous value in taking initia- Roy Pomerantz in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 16. company. tive. These were, without a doubt, Babyking/Petking She is currently being spoiled in Send stories of selflessness and important contributing factors to 83 182-20 Liberty Ave. Chicago. otherwise to [email protected]. my education, and fortunately these 83 Jamaica, NY 11412 For those who would like guid- opportunities and life learning [email protected] ance on where to direct that do- skills are still very much part of the good instinct, Harvey Cotton has Andrew Weisman Columbia experience today. I can My wife, Debbie, and I enjoyed a suggestion: “Recently, my wife, 82 710 Lawrence Ave. truly say I never take for granted a memorable evening at the John Cathy ’83 Barnard, our daughter, Westfield, NJ 07090 the amazing education I received at Jay Awards Dinner on March 3. Leah, and I had the pleasure of 82 Columbia. I learned to experiment; More than 600 attendees helped [email protected] attending Spectator’s annual Blue I pursued my intellectual curios- to raise more than $1 million for Pencil Dinner at Faculty House. Greetings, gentlemen. I trust all ity, learned to take risks, and made the John Jay National Scholarship Our son, Benjamin ’11, is editor- is well and that the warm spring lifelong friends. I continuously Program. Three of the honorees, in-chief, and I promised him that I weather provides you with re- think about how lucky I am to have Frank Lopez-Balboa ’82, Tracy V. would spread the word to any and newed optimism, thereby driving attended Columbia and am grateful Maitland ’82 and Brian Krisberg all that Spectator’s $400,000 capital a higher than expected Michigan for the way it prepared me for life ’81, attended CC with us in the campaign is underway and gladly Consumer Confidence number, and my career after school. And to early 1980s. I was particularly accepting donations at http:// triggering a 30-point rally in the be a recipient of the John Jay award, moved by Brian’s remarks. He alumni.columbiaspectator.com/ S&P, a widening in the 2s versus 10s it’s icing on the cake. Thank you all spoke about the joy he experienced campaign. Sitting next to me at the yield spread, signaling the prospect very, very much.” witnessing the transition of an all- dinner was Dan Tamkin, whose of further reductions in accommo- Fixed income guru Tracy also male Columbia College to a co-ed daughter, Emily ’12, is editorial dative monetary policy. For those of expressed his appreciation for the institution. In fact, Brian was head page editor of Spec. Dan and I go you who left the New York financial fine education and opportunities resident of a co-ed Carman Hall way back. In our eighth-grade community far behind, this means that CC afforded him. I can’t help while attending the Law School. I social studies class, he supported “Have a nice day.” but share many of these sentiments. have had the pleasure of work- Nixon and I supported McGovern. Once again, I am filled with Attending the dinner in support ing with Brian on the Columbia Thankfully, Emily reports that she pride and admiration by the ac- of Tracy and Frank were such College Alumni Association Board has not followed in her father’s complishments of our classmates. luminaries of ’82 as (in no particular of Directors, where he currently is political footsteps, at least those On March 3 at Cipriani 42nd St. in order) Andrew Danzig, Victor chairman. Brian is a tireless sup- he left in Mrs. Lewis’ class. It was New York City, five accomplished Lopez-Balboa, Dave Filosa, Louis porter of the College. great to be back on campus, which College alumni were honored with De Chiara, Fred Katayama, Martin Frank invited the organizers of looks terrific. The evening was a John Jay Award for distinguished Moroney, Tom Nevitt, Joe Piscina our 25th reunion class to his Park inspiring. Spec is going great guns professional achievement. Two of and Joe Cabrera. Avenue apartment. The Class of ’82 and deserves support.” these distinguished alumni were Also checking in this period was had an enormously successful 25th Daniel Gordis reports from none other than Frank Lopez-Bal- architect, athlete and true Renais- reunion and his knowledge, words Israel: “My most recent book, Sav- boa and Tracy V. Maitland. One of sance man Charlie Shugart. In his of encouragement and hospitality ing Israel: How the Jewish People Can the other honorees was actress Julia own words: contributed to the success of our Win a War that May Never End, was reunion. recently awarded a 2009 National Debbie and I were elated to be Jewish Book Award. www.jewish seated at the dinner with legendary bookcouncil.org/external_links/ Ralph Rivera ’83 has been appointed president, basketball superstar Richie Gor- 2009_National_Jewish_Book_ online, of Major League Gaming, a professional dan. Richie recently was honored Awards_PR.pdf.” by being inducted into the Boys Don Weinreich writes: “I am video game league. and Girls H.S. Sports Hall of Fame. starting my 24th year with Polshek He is in touch with many of his CC Partnership Architects, and my basketball teammates including fifth as a partner in the New York Stiles ’05, but what does she know “I am still in Seattle surviving Darren Burnett (banking), Eric firm. My current projects include about managing a long gamma the challenging economy. Our Clarke (professional basketball the Brooklyn Museum, the Utah convertible bond portfolio? Frank doors are open and the lights are player/world traveler), Brad Museum of Natural History and made the following comments dur- on. For an architecture practice, Brown (dentist) and Koko Eaton the Stanford Law School. The ing his acceptance speech: that is saying something these (orthopedic surgeon for the Tampa kids, Kate (18) and Max (15), have “I am extremely honored and days. We are starting to see signs of Bay Devil Rays). Richie lives with been thriving at Bard H.S. Early humbled to be given this special life, but it may take a while. In the his family in New Jersey and is a College and Bronx Science (here’s award. Columbia, as we all know, meantime, my wife, Shannon, and broker/dealer. He has remained to public education!). Barbara is as is an outstanding institution. For I are enjoying spending time with active in Columbia athletics and enchanting as the day I met her at each and every one of us who at- our boys as they grow, now 13, 13 alumni activities. Columbia’s Architecture School, tended the College, the Columbia (twins) and 11. They keep us busy I also spent time with Mike and we will celebrate 25 years of experience was unique and per- with school and sports. I also coach Brown ’80, Alex Sachare ’71, Mike married bliss this October.” sonal. Columbia presented us with a local high school track team. This Schmidtberger ’82, Joe Cabrera ’82, Steve Masiar is happy to report a great educational platform, but it will be my 22nd season. I even find David Filosa ’82, Mark Amster-

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dam ’66, Derek Wittner ’65 and of New York. Kenny continues his “Check this out on the Web site 10-year anniversary dalliance with Columbia College Fund Executive volunteer work as vice-chair of the Culture Catch: it’s Steve Holtje’s his Orthodox Jewish dry cleaner; Director Susan Birnbaum. Board of Directors of the Charles B. roundup of the best albums of feigned Orthodoxy in order to Robert Hughes was referenced Wang Community Health Center the decade. Really a phenomenal curry favor with someone to get extensively in the March 4 New (formerly the Chinatown Health survey: www.culturecatch.com/ him access to a donor kidney so he York Times article, “Protecting These Clinic). music (scroll down a bit to find all does not have to donate his own Old Horses.” It states, “Robert C. Electronic Business Journal notes, 101 records; they’re divided into to pal Richard Lewis; and refused Hughes is historian for the Town “Major League Gaming, the three parts on the site).” to jump off a stuck ski lift along of Huntington, of which North- professional video game league, Eddy Freidfeld wrote a syndi- with his Orthodox seat mate at port is a part. The town has 500 announced that Ralph Rivera has cated article about Larry David sundown because she does not homes designated as historical in been appointed president, online. and Curb Your Enthusiasm and a want to violate the Sabbath. He six historic districts, in addition to A digital media veteran with an mini-history of American Jewish also tells Susie Essman’s Susie 100 individually listed homes. Mr. impressive background grow- comedy. He writes, “ ‘You’re not Green character, ‘I’m much more Hughes said that the town had had ing multi-faceted international a get together guy. You hate to Gentile than you’ when he gets a preservation review process in businesses, Ralph will lead digital get together!’ Jerry Seinfeld tells thrown out of his country club place since 1969. (Northport, as an strategy and online product devel- former partner Larry David in the and tries to join a restricted club. incorporated village, is not subject opment for the fast-growing sport. third episode of this season’s Curb A near-death drowning experi- to town regulation on this issue.) ‘MLG is at an exciting inflection Your Enthusiasm. ‘I’m being sold ence causes a spiritual rebirth and ‘Historic preservation is not an im- point,’ said Ralph Rivera, president something. I don’t know what results in Larry getting thrown out pediment to liability’, Mr. Hughes of MLG Online. ‘I’m honored that yet.’ Seinfeld fans will have even of synagogue on Yom Kippur for said. ‘Houses grow and change the company has brought me on more reason to rejoice over the trying to scalp tickets, and when over the years to meet changing Larry’s best friend/manager Jeff needs’ for practical kitchens and (Jeff Garlin) has a masturbation large open spaces. ‘Historic proper- incident that is respectfully tied to ties are what give the town its feel, Tom Watson ’84 launched CauseWired Communications his not wanting to miss the Four its character,’ he said.” to work with nonprofits and foundations on using social Questions at the Passover seder, it As a health care marketing is a moment worthy of Philip Roth. consultant in Los Angeles, Paul media and storytelling. ‘I’m like every other Jew — there Lerner has been closely monitoring are things I like and things I don’t the health reform efforts in Wash- like and understand about Juda- ington, D.C. While supportive of to help manage its rapid global new season of Curb — a reunion of ism — I just have the ability to talk Barack Obama’s reform drive, growth, as well as to continue to the cast of Seinfeld. As Curb enters about it,’ David said. ‘I don’t think he does not believe that any final innovate around how MLG Nation its seventh and potentially final of things to do about Judaism, legislation will significantly slow experiences the world’s only digital season, David returns to the place but if I hear or read a story, I say ‘I the growth of the health care sector. sport.’ ‘Having worked closely with that first made him a household have to do something with that.’ “As people get older and more Ralph over the years, I know he name, and he’s bringing Seinfeld, The chairlift episode was based on affluent, they demand more health understands the unique demands Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Drey- a story I read. And Larry’s almost care,” Paul says. “And our nation of a business that sits at the intersec- fus and Michael Richards with drowning and spiritual awakening is getting older and more affluent, tion of sports and video games,’ him in a faux ‘Seinfeld’ reunion. was based on a story I read about in aggregate.” Southern Califor- said Matthew Bromberg, president The socially inappropriate and something similar happening to nians may have recently seen Paul and CEO of Major League Gaming. still wildly funny David (‘Without Cat Stevens.’ quoted in the media multiple times ‘We are changing the face of sports your health you’re nothing. Some “Garlin and Essman play Jeff and on local community issues, due to media and Ralph is a great addition people are nothing even with their Susie Green, Larry’s best friends — his service on the boards of several to the senior team.’ For the last six health. Like me.’) is still calling and the Jerry and Millie Helper to civic organizations. years, Ralph oversaw the AOL other drivers ‘Schmohocks!’ and his twisted Rob Petrie, an alternate Paul and his partner, Stephen Games and AOL Latino businesses, still scheming in the best tradition universe Dick Van Dyke Show that Reis, recently celebrated their 10th as well as the expansion of AOL’s of Sgt. Bilko and Jack Benny. Tak- tests all the conventions of sitcoms anniversary with their first trip to content sites internationally. Under ing on life’s everyday problems in and comedy. ‘I’m very proud of my Barcelona. Paul’s primary e-mail his direction, AOL Games launched largely improvised and symmetri- Jewish heritage,’ said Garlin, also address now is PaulLerner@mac. Games.com to provide a best in cally plotted episodes, with two the executive producer of the show. com. class casual gaming experience disparate ideas converging in each ‘The Four Questions joke comes Wayne Allyn Root’s daughter, that consisted of a comprehensive episode to hysterical conclusion, out of that. We’re not self-loathing Dakota, stayed with us during a re- portfolio of card, board, puzzle, ar- David, who carefully outlines ev- in any way. We’re Jewish, and that cent trip to New York. In addition cade and casino games, along with ery episode, continues to push the becomes part of our humor.’ ‘To to being a world-class fencer and a social gaming platform offering creative envelope, turning every say that I use humor to show pride an outstanding student, Dakota avatars, profiles, chat, tournaments, convention on its ear, including about my religion would be hypo- left an indelible impression on my leaderboards, tokens and badges. Jewish identity. Curb has become critical, because I’m a nonbeliever wife and three kids. WAR — to use He also led AOL’s leading bilingual the current clubhouse where Jew- and not religious in any way, but Las Vegas slang, your daughter is a portal — AOL Latino and was ish comedians meet. I do, however, feel proud to be a huge winner! responsible for growing non-US “The former ‘master of his part of a long legacy of comedians, Ken Chin is a partner at Kramer audience from 0–50% of traffic. domain,’ David is the unbridled id many of whom come from Jewish Levin Naftalis & Frankel and is Additionally, he was responsible of Seinfeld and the master of Jewish backgrounds,’ said Essman … ‘New busy there. Fortunately, the firm for AOL’s programming expansion comedy. From feigning Orthodoxy York Jews frequently say things to does a lot of bankruptcy work so across the Americas, Europe, and in order to get his friend Richard me about Curb, like ‘I’m sure no one the overall work flow did not APAC. Throughout his career, Mr. Lewis a kidney donation, which else in the country gets the show drop off as much as at other large Rivera has focused on the intersec- harkens back to Seinfeld mak- but us.’ That couldn’t be further law firms. Kenny was named in tion of technology and media. ing out with his rabbi’s-daughter from the truth. The humor in the American Lawyer as having worked Previously, he held executive and girlfriend during Schindler’s List, show is universal, as is most Jewish on the large GM and Chrysler staff positions at AOL’s Movie- or a vengeful George mixing humor — or all those great Jewish bankruptcies. He also was named fone, Pearson Education, Simon & lobster into her omelet after a comics wouldn’t have been so one of the Best Lawyers for Bank- Schuster, Deloitte & Touche, and fight, “the formula is the same as popular. Anecdotally, I’ve been told ing Law in 2010. Kenny taught a IBM. He earned his undergradu- Seinfeld, David said, ‘to do awful by almost every ethnicity from Afri- continuing legal education course ate degree from Columbia College things that people think about cans, Indians, Midwestern WASPs, at the Practicing Law Institute and and an M.B.A. from New York and sympathize with.’ Over the etc., that they love the show.’ ” will chair a course on foreclosures University.’ ” years, the overtly Jewish Larry has I thoroughly enjoyed the Alum- at the Association of the City Bar Steven Greenfield writes, contemplated a spouse-authorized ni Profile of twin jugglers Jake and

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Marty LaSalle ’07 in the March/ ant Hill, Calif., for eight years with Kettering Cancer Center. I also Arts League. Not only does April CCT. In fact, my wife and I my wife, Sue, to whom I’ve been am professor of radiology at Weill Malwina E. Łyś-Dobradin ’05 and witnessed their first-place perfor- married since 2002. We entered Cornell Medical College, al- her crew arrange for the best in mance at the 2001 International into our marriage with one son though I have never actually been NYC cultural events at discounted Juggling Association champion- each, both of whom have left the to Cornell’s Ithaca campus. I think prices, she managed to inveigle ship in Madison, Wis. I also took nest. Our oldest, Adam, is in his that this has set some kind of dubi- director Gregory Mosher (also in my children, David and Rebecca, second year at West Point, having ous record! charge of the Columbia Arts Initia- to see them perform at the Big survived his plebe year relatively “Since Columbia is located be- tive) to bring his cast (including Apple Circus. As the founder of unscathed. Our youngest, Chase, tween my work and home, I visit Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johans- Columbia’s first juggling club, in- graduated from high school last the campus somewhat regularly to son) to an after-party to meet all structor in Columbia’s alternative June and enlisted in the Marine reminisce about my old stomping 100 Columbia attendees! If you are education program and featured Corps. Having completed basic ground and actually listen to some not aware of this great project, join juggler with the CU marching training and combat training, he is lectures. It seems that the Core via www.alumniarts.columbia.edu band, I take huge pride in knowing ‘enjoying’ his time at Ft. Leonard Curriculum had a long-lasting or call 212-851-1879. that Columbia continues to attract Wood, Mo., awaiting the next effect on me! the best juggling talent in the Ivy stage of his training before getting “It was wonderful to see old REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 League. his first duty assignment. We are friends at our 25th reunion. Thank Alumni Office Contacts Congratulations to fellow CCT extremely proud of the decisions you especially Doug Mintz, for Alumni Affairs Kimberly Peterson class correspondent Jon White ’85. that they have made to serve their opening your home to fellow [email protected] Jon’s son, Isaac, will be entering country. classmates.” 212-851-7872 Columbia this fall. It seems like “Sue and I own a manufactur- And speaking of Doug … “After Development Kimberly Rogers yesterday that I met Jon as he ar- er’s representative agency in Cali- 12 years as a musculoskeletal radi- [email protected] rived at Columbia while I was on fornia, providing products for the ologist in my hometown of New 212-851-7492 the Orientation Committee. electric utility industry, in which York, I am plying my craft south. Isaac, the Class of ’83 welcomes we’ve both spent the past 25 years. I moved to Miami in March and Jon White you to the Columbia family! I’ve been able to leverage my four welcome any help getting adjusted 16 South Ct. years on the CU varsity baseball or learning Spanish. The French 85 Port Washington, NY 11050 team into the highly sought after I tried to learn at Reid Hall while 85 [email protected] Dennis Klainberg (unpaid) position as the head JV at Columbia will serve me only Berklay Cargo Worldwide coach at our local high school. I’m marginally better than the Latin I This will be my last column before 84 JFK Intl. Airport finding that 14- and 15-year-olds failed in high school.” Alumni Reunion Weekend (Thurs- 84 Box 300665 are much better baseball players, Thanks to Matt Greenough for day, June 3–Sunday, June 6), so if Jamaica, NY 11430 since there’s no way that my skills pointing out that journalist Matthew you have not signed up, please do [email protected] have deteriorated. One highlight, Cooper has joined the Financial Cri- so now. Our list of attendees is though, was that I struck out Joe sis Inquiry Commission as a senior growing. See who’s going to be It’s been a busy year for Tom DiMaggio’s great-nephew (also adviser. FCIC is a 10-member com- there and register at http://reunion. Watson. His first book, CauseWired: Joe DiMaggio) during tryouts mission appointed by Congress with college.columbia.edu. Plugging In, Getting Involved, Chang- two years ago. He made the team the goal of investigating the causes Our goal is to have 125 class- ing the World, chronicled the rise of anyway.” of the financial crisis of 2007–09. mates attend, which would be the online social activism and went to Ted Rodriguez-Bell regrets that Carlton Wessel, a lawyer previ- largest 25th reunion turnout in a third printing. Tom launched a he couldn’t make the reunion last ously with King and Spalding, has more than five years. To get this consulting company, CauseWired year because he was substitute joined the litigation practice in the big turnout, we have worked with Communications, to work with coaching for his daughter’s softball law office of DLA Piper. Carlton the Alumni Office to ensure that nonprofits and foundations on us- team. His charges hit two flies over has extensive white-collar experi- the schedule is family-friendly as ing social media and storytelling to the infield and recorded a defen- ence, particularly in the representa- well as accessible for our Barnard attract supporters and raise money sive putout, which for first-graders tion of pharmaceutical clients in and SEAS classmates and for you for causes. You can check in with was impressive. Ted and his wife, government and internal investiga- to have ample time to enjoy the Tom at causewired.com. Nancy ’86, work for competing tions, as well as compliance work. campus and New York. Batter up! Doug Softy is in the banks and share the same home Most notably, he has held in-house In addition, our class is approach- house! “I have been living in Pleas- office. They and their daughter, roles at two major pharmaceutical ing, and most likely will meet, our Sophie, live in Berkeley, Calif., companies, serving as assistant fundraising goal of $250,000 (more where the politics are entertaining, general counsel and head of the than double the amount raised the chicken coop across the street is Government Investigations Group last year). Thank you to all who Manage Your unremarkable and the Priuses are at Pfizer and senior legal director already have stepped up. If we beyond counting. for litigation at Schering-Plough. meet our $250,000 reunion gift goal, Subscription In the words of proud papa An- Earlier in his career, Carlton the University commits to creating drei Holodny, “I am most proud to served as assistant U.S. attorney for a scholarship endowment in the f you prefer reading CCT announce that my daughter, Elena, the District of New Jersey, where class’ name upon the realization of Ionline, you can help us go has been accepted to Columbia he prosecuted healthcare fraud, po- the Kluge bequest. This means that green and save money by College early decision and will be litical corruption and other white- the Class of 1985 has the potential opting out of the print ver- attending the greatest school in the collar cases. In recognition of his to have an endowed scholarship in sion. Please send an e-mail world as a member of the Class of superior performance, the Attor- its name. Every single gift, of any with your name, class year 2014. Elena will be a third-gener- ney General honored Carlton with amount, brings us closer to this goal, and address, so we can lo- ation Columbian, as my mother the Director’s Award, the highest as well as to achieving our participa- is a graduate of the Barnard Class award given by the Department tion goal of 25 percent. We hope you cate you in the database, to of ’56. We have another Columbia of Justice. Carlton also was a law can join us in thanking Columbia for [email protected], subject connection, as I met my wife, Ma- clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals its contribution to each of our lives. line “Opt-out.” We will con- ria, at Bard Hall at the P&S campus for the Third Circuit and the U.S. Denis Searby won’t be able to tinue to notify you by e-mail when she was in her senior year in District Court in New Jersey. make it to NYC for reunion, as he when each issue is posted medical school and I was a radiol- Last January, yours truly, Den- is spending this academic year as a online. You may be reinstated ogy resident (at that purple school nis Klainberg, and wife, Dana, had visiting professor of Greek at Upp- to receive the print edition at downtown) but still living in the the distinct pleasure of celebrating sala University, Sweden. He keeps any time simply by notifying Columbia neighborhood. my 47th birthday at a Colum- active on the Alumni Representa- us at the same address. “I am the chief of neuroradiology bia event on Broadway: Arthur tive Committee, however. and director of the Functional MRI Miller’s A View from the Bridge, as Scott McGehee recently released Laboratory at Memorial Sloan- arranged by the Columbia Alumni his latest film, Uncertainty, starring

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Curtis is the founder and co-chair ed president of Icahn Enterprises. Abha Jain Sinha Collins. of PLI’s Venture Capital Conferenc- Famed corporate raider and activ- 88 9633 Eagle Ridge Dr. Jon Surgal (who must hold the es. He was co-chair of the Annual ist Carl Icahn said: “I have known Bethesda, MD 20817 record from our class with three Institute on Securities Regulation Dan for a number of years and 88 [email protected] other Columbia degrees: M.A., ’86 from 2001–06 and has been a have always been impressed by his GSAS; M.Phil., ’91 GSAS; Ph.D. ’08 member of the advisory board for intelligence, ability and work ethic. As I write this in March, it is that GSAS) recently released his latest the Annual Securities Regulation I believe he will be a great addition time of year when we are all long- book, Have You Seen My Dinosaur?, Institute in San Diego. He also is a to the IEP team and look forward ing for spring — or at least spring in which a little boy’s dinosaur member of the Board of Directors to working with him.” Dan was vacation. After four days without sends him on a surprisingly dif- of the influential Joint Venture: previously e.v.p. at Lear Corp. and power or heat here in D.C. during ficult hunt when he decides to play Silicon Valley Network. before that a partner at Winston & the February snowstorms, I know I hide-and-seek. The text contains Strawn. He earned an M.B.A. from am ready for warmth. After a busy lots of catchy rhyme and repeti- the University of Chicago and a winter, I am off on an adventure tion to reinforce word recognition. Everett Weinberger law degree from Stanford. trip with REI to Belize; I hope I The book makes for a pleasurable 50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B survive the sea kayaking! I thank learning experience for young 86 New York, NY 10023 those classmates who have sent me readers. Jon’s book is the latest in 86 Sarah A. Kass messages. It is always interesting to [email protected] the Beginner Books series, which PO Box 300808 get back in touch with lost friends began in 1957, when Theodore Gei- It is so on! John Chachas is officially 87 Brooklyn, NY 11230 and see the different directions our sel — known to the world as Dr. back in the Nevada Senate race. 87 lives have taken. [email protected] Seuss — wrote a book called The John took the plunge, quitting as I recently heard from Brett Cat in the Hat. Jon also is an Emmy managing director in media bank- I was hoping to have for you in Miller, who writes, “I live on the Award-winning writer of Lamb ing at Lazard to devote himself this issue a report from Annie Fils- Upper West Side with my wife Chop’s Play-Along (PBS), Howdy full-time to the Republican primary Aime Joseph about her recent visit and two boys (12 and 8). We get Doody and Friends (NBC) and Emily race. I’m quoting from an interview to Haiti, but we will have to look up to Morningside Heights now of New Moon (CBC), and creator of he did with the Las Vegas Review- forward to the next column for that. and then. The neighborhood Muggsy and GO-USA (NBC) and Journal. “I hit my 45th birthday In the meantime, I will share with certainly has changed for the bet- The Big Game Hunt (New York State and concluded it was time to do you the little bit of news that I have. ter. I am an attorney at Morrison Department of Education). something good for the country. I Thomas J. Doherty wrote: “I & Foerster, where I am co-chair of Brian Margolis has joined the guess I looked at the financial crisis continue to focus on psychology the Distressed Real Estate Group New York office of Orrick, Her- of October–November ’08, and the and environmental issues. I run my and a partner in the Bankruptcy rington & Sutcliffe as a partner. response of the people in Washing- own consulting practice in Port- and Restructuring Group. I keep DLA Piper announced that ton, I have to confess, left me cold land, Ore., Sustainable Self (www. in touch with a few of my Sigma Curtis Mo has joined the firm’s — the depth of misunderstanding. selfsustain.com). I am a part-time Alpha Mu fraternity brothers and corporate and securities practice So I felt something calling me to faculty member at Lewis & Clark lightweight crew teammates. As I as a partner in the Silicon Valley stop being angry about it and actu- College, where I teach environ- write this, I happen to be on a call office. “Curtis is one of the most ally put myself in the game.” mentally related psychology and with Ilana Volkov, as we are co- respected lawyers in Silicon Valley counsel in a case.” and in venture capital circles. His It is certainly true that Morn- arrival reinforces our commitment ingside Heights looks different. A to Silicon Valley as a focal point of Laurence Holtzman ’88 and Felicia Needleman ’88 classmate from the Engineering our practice, given the history of recently won the Theater for the American Musical School commented that she barely the technology community here recognized the neighborhood and the global role that it plays,” Prize in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. when she visited for the first time said Greg Gallo, a senior partner in after many years. DLA Piper’s Silicon Valley office, I also received news that Miriam in a release. Curtis has represented What are his qualifications for counseling courses. I’m the editor Klevan was dragged from New emerging growth companies, ma- senator? “The first qualification is of the Ecopsychology journal (www. York to Chicago by her husband, jor public companies, investment not being from Washington. The liebertpub.com/eco) and was Steve Meier ’98L, where she now is banks, venture capital funds and problem today is the town is es- recently involved in the Ameri- happily studying for a Ph.D. in hu- private equity funds in hundreds sentially populated by people who can Psychological Association’s man development and social policy of public offerings, mergers and are perpetually interested in their Climate Change Task Force (www. at Northwestern and running after acquisitions, buyouts, venture own re-election.” apa.org/science/about/publica Nathan (5) and Layla (2). capital financings and other com- John is a third-generation Ne- tions/climate-change.aspx).” I also was delighted to hear from plex transactions. He has extensive vadan — he and his two brothers Additionally, Thomas was Laurence Holzman, who sent the experience in corporate gover- were raised on a cattle ranch in Ely, recently quoted in a New York Times following correspondence: As a nance matters and regularly acts as Nev. And while at Columbia, John article on ecopsychology. partner in Bard Theatricals, Lau- general outside counsel to public was an intern for former Nevada Thomas lives in Portland with rence is one of the producers of the and private companies at all stages Senator Paul Laxalt. John’s top op- his wife, Chelsea Harper, and their new Broadway play Looped, starring of development, particularly in ponents in the Republican primary daughter, Eva (2). He has kept up Valerie Harper. He and Felicia the technology, life sciences, clean are casino businesswoman and with Kurt (Bekebrede) Gantrish Needleman have collaborated on energy technology and consumer former state Senator Sue Lowden and said they enjoyed reminiscing writing libretto and lyrics for sev- sectors. and former UNLV basketball star recently after Kurt took his oldest eral musicals. Their holiday musical Before joining DLA Piper, Curtis Danny Tarkanian. John has been son for a college admissions tour of revue, That Time of the Year, which worked at Wilmer Cutler Pickering tirelessly hitting the campaign trail Morningside Heights. premiered Off-Broadway at the Hale and Dorr, where he was the across the state, and his TV ads Anthony J. Salvidio, an attor- York Theatre, now is being licensed founding partner of its Palo Alto have begun airing. The Republican ney, has been named co-chairman by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, office. He has lectured extensively at primary will be held on Tuesday, of Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple’s and the original cast album recently seminars sponsored by the Practic- June 8, and the winner will face commercial lending department was released on JAY Records. Lau- ing Law Institute and other profes- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and an officer of the law firm, fol- rence and Felicia’s original musical sional groups and has given expert in the Senate election on Tuesday, lowing the merger of his practice comedy, The Jerusalem Syndrome, legal commentary on emerging November 2. with the firm. He will continue to recently won the Theater for the growth companies and the technol- Best of luck John — we are concentrate his practice in commer- American Musical Prize in the New ogy sector for CNN Moneyline, pulling for you! Check out www. cial and business law and estate York Musical Theatre Festival, and CNBC Business Center and various chachasfornevada.com. planning. The firm is located in they are developing their musical publications. Daniel Ninivaggi was appoint- Worcester, Mass. drama, Wallenberg, about the WWII

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hile other consumer products outside of the brother, says of Heroux’s high product companies United States, you’re school tennis days. “He decided W duke it out with looking at a product at some point to focus more on Droids and iPhones, Hampton like a Wonder Hanger. business, although I’d probably Direct, the company respon- Almost everywhere has say he had more raw talent sible for the “As Seen on TV” closets, so that product than many players who went products, is sticking with the applies to a lot of differ- on [to play professionally]. basics. ent places. We’re think- “He was always a go-getter,” “We sell a lot of problem- ing more globally than Parameswaran adds. “He al- solvers, time-savers and mon- we were 14 years ago.” ways wanted the best.” ey-savers,” says Steve Heroux Heroux is accomplish- After graduation, Heroux ’91, Hampton Direct CEO and ing all of this from cozy spent formative time working founder. Williston, Vt., where in sales at Sheffield Labs (now Under Heroux’s guidance, Hampton Direct is head- Sheffield Pharmaceuticals) a Hampton Direct (www.hamp quartered. He and his company that invented, among tondirect.com) concentrates family live a few miles other things, modern tooth- on designing and selling simple up the road in South paste. “Obviously something’s household products, such as Burlington. Living in Ver- wrong with their marketing be- the Wonder Hanger, which mont is not a hindrance cause no one’s heard of them,” reduces closet clutter by verti- to getting business done, he notes dryly. “They did a lot of cally staggering garments, and Heroux notes. “Burling- private label and contract pack- the Twin Draft Guard, a fitted ton is not exactly New aging. I worked there and from under-door tube that reduces Steve Heroux ’91 at the Hampton Direct York City, but with the there I started Hampton Direct.” draft and cuts energy costs. warehouse, home of the “As Seen on Internet, FedEx and cell While Heroux talks with These are two of more than TV” line of products. phones, we can pretty an easy calm, he’s intensely 500 items that Hampton Direct PHOTO: TOD GUNTER much accomplish any- passionate about his work. markets, and they’re selling thing we want.” “It’s very satisfying when you extremely well: Hampton Direct many products in-house but Heroux met his wife, Jennifer, come up with an idea … [and] tripled its 2009 sales from 2008. also buys products from enter- while he was at the College and consumers start buying it in Products deemed to have the prising inventors. “There are she was attending the Manhat- the millions and telling you that greatest selling potential will ap- a lot of people out there with tan School of Music. They have you’ve had a really good idea,” pear on TV advertisements and good ideas,” he says. “We’re try- two children, Helena, 7, and he says. “Knowing that what- end up with an “As Seen on TV” ing to close that gap, so some- Steve Jr., 5. Despite his demand- ever I’m working on could be label in stores, while some prod- one has an idea, they bring it to ing business life, Heroux makes the next big thing really gets ucts appear solely in catalogs or us and we have the capabilities time for family. “I try to get home me pumping.” retail outlets without TV ads. The to develop the item.” to see the kids at night, and I So what’s a product on the Wonder Hanger and the Twin A native of Montréal, Heroux catch up on weekends,” he says. horizon that he’s excited about? Draft Guard are both “As Seen majored in political science at “Burlington has a lot to offer for “We have a new pillow,” he on TV” products. the College. “I think the school family. There’s a ton of sports, says without missing a beat. “I spend a good chunk of my in many ways got me involved and in the winter there’s skiing “It’s very versatile — it turns time looking at new products with international business,” he and sledding.” into many shapes. You can put and ideas,” Heroux says of his says. “I’ve met a lot of people Perhaps Heroux learned the it around your neck, your back, day-to-day schedule. “I spend who are from Columbia who art of such balance early. Not your legs. a lot of time with the design are living all over the world.” only did he graduate from the “There are always things in team and I spend a lot of time This focus has served Her­ College a semester ahead of the works. To make a big item, with sales, making decisions oux well. Hampton Direct does schedule but he also was an the odds of success are one on what we want to bring to more business internationally active member of Sigma Nu and out of 10, one out of 15 … we market.” Heroux’s main focus than it does domestically, a played on the tennis team. “He have to kind of weed through,” is making the call on the next significant shift from when he ranked fifth in Canada juniors,” Heroux muses. “But you never product to appear on TV. founded the company in 1995. Prem Parameswaran ’90 GS, know what’s going to hit.” Hampton Direct invents “Because we can sell more ’95 Business, a fellow Sigma Nu Jesse Thiessen ’11 Arts hero, for Broadway. Look me up on Facebook or send quent political commentator on politics, business, media, science Laurence and his wife, Lara, me an e-mail. Happy spring! national networks such as MSNBC, and the arts. I enjoyed watching have two sons, Andrew (10) and CNN and Fox during the last year Julie politely challenge author Ann Zachary (8). Felicia and her hus- or so. Based in New York, Julie also Coulter on healthcare. You can also band, Rich Levinson, are the proud Emily Miles Terry chairs Community Board 1 (rep- find her writing on The Huffington parents of Simon (15), James (12) 89 45 Clarence St. resenting Lower Manhattan) and Post. Julie has three young boys (6 and Annabel (8). Brookline, MA 02446 has done so for the past five years. and 5 (twins)) who are “my pride Congratulations to Laurence 89 She also launched her own show, and joy,” and she somehow man- [email protected] and Felicia! Julie Menin’s Give and Take (www. ages to get it all done by doing a lot I hope more of you will contact Some of you might have recognized juliemenin.com), earlier this year. of work after she puts the children me and let your classmates know another ’89er on television — Julie The show is a 30-minute interview to bed. Julie intends to continue to what you are up to nowadays. Jacobs Menin, who has been a fre- format featuring newsmakers in be involved civically and in public

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service in New York in the years to Weekend, Thursday, June 3–Sun- Evan Schultz and Josh Saltman, I should thank Jake Novak for come. Last March, Julie was among day, June 6. If you’re on the fence and also sees Chapin Clark and my next piece of news. Jake is the several of our classmates who gath- about going, just go. It will be fun. Matt Segal every so often. All are co-creator and senior producer of ered in Midtown for a mini-reunion It will be packed with events that healthy and happy. Fox Business’ new show, Varney at Bobby Van’s. take full advantage of what NYC Thanks to everyone who has & Company, which airs every Though I missed our mini- and Columbia have to offer. There shared their news with us. weekday at 9:20 a.m. Jake came reunion, I was able to attend Colum- will be cultural happenings as well Until next time … cheers! to Fox to help launch its business bia alumni festivities in and around as class-specific cocktail hours and network in 2007 after previously the Sundance Film Festival, which dinners. The festivities will culmi- spending seven years at CNN. was held in Park City, Utah, in Janu- nate with a champagne toast and Jeremy Feinberg Recently, in an instance of CC ’92 ary. For those who are looking for an dancing on Low Plaza on Saturday. 315 E. 65th St. #3F cross-promotion, Jake interviewed excuse to see independent films and If you haven’t registered, do 92 New York, NY 10021 Eric Garcetti about the financial enjoy some skiing, the Columbia so now: http://reunion.college. 92 challenges facing Los Angeles. jeremy.feinberg@ Alumni Association hosts a recep- columbia.edu. verizon.net As if that weren’t enough to keep tion and cocktail party open to all Speaking of fun, I heard from him busy, Jake recently wrapped alumni during the Sundance festival. Eric Haxthausen. He lives in Finally, finally, finally. up his third season of doing color Our university was well represented Washington, D.C., and is in his Lots of news, and a long column. commentary for Lions football at the festival this year, with many third year as the director of U.S. Thank you to those who responded along with play-by-play man Jerry films by Columbians featured. Carol Climate Policy for The Nature to my solicitations for news, and Recco, on www.gocolumbialions. Becker, dean of faculty, School of the Conservancy. When he got to D.C. I hope we start a nice long run of com. Jake continues to document Arts, and Donna H. MacPhee, v.p. 11 years ago, Eric worked at the lengthy columns right here and the past, present and future of Lion for alumni relations and president of Office of Management and Budget right now. football on his blog, www.roarlions. the Columbia Alumni Association, blogspot.com. Jake lives on Long hosted the fifth annual CAA at Sun- Island with his wife, Adar, and dance complimentary reception in Leila Charles Leigh ’92 is producing a new romantic daughters, Jordan and Yael. Jordan Park City, where Columbia Univer- has been the “honorary ball kid” at sity School of the Arts Film Program comedy, Conception. several Lion football and basketball Associate Professor Eric Mendelsohn games over the past few years. was honored. Mendelsohn won the Finally, Andrew Contiguglia, a Sundance Film Festival 2010 Direct- on environmental regulation and David Kunian lives in New Denver-based attorney, has found ing Award in the dramatic category for the nonprofit Environmental Orleans and received the Louisiana himself mentioned in quite a few for his film 3 Backyards. Defense Fund. He says it’s been Endowment for the Humanities newspapers lately. He is represent- Utah residents Anne-Marie interesting observing and partici- “Individual Achievement In The ing Holly Sampson, one of Tiger Wright and her husband, Fred pating in the ups and downs of the Humanities Award” for 2009. Con- Woods’ alleged mistresses, and Lampropoulos, hosted a reception effort to pass climate legislation in gratulations! was quoted giving a “no com- for alumni at a local art gallery. the United States. We have a cover model in our ment” on her behalf in such news- Anne-Marie, who also has a mas- Would love to know what the class! Well, not that kind of cover papers as the New York Post and the ter’s in journalism from Columbia, rest of you are up to! model. But our own Aaron Lebo- New York Daily News. was deputy director of communica- vitz was one of several practitio- That’s it for now. Let’s keep the tions for the New York City Council ners featured in a cover story on streak going here. Longer is better! I and has written for several publica- Margie Kim high frequency trading in Futures look forward to hearing from you. tions. She has three children and has c/o CCT Industry magazine (www.futures written a book for women, A Bundle 91 Columbia Alumni Center industry.org/futuresindustry.asp). of Choices, aimed at helping women 91 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 Leila Charles Leigh (formerly Betsy Gomperz of the Mormon faith balance and New York, NY 10025 Gotoff) wrote to tell about an excit- 93 41 Day St. achieve their life goals. It was great margiekimkim@ ing new movie project that is truly Newton, MA 02466 catching up with Anne-Marie, who a team effort (her husband wrote 93 hotmail.com [email protected] continues to take on writing projects it and will direct). Leila said the and hopes to have another book Hello, all! Just a few, but happy, movie, in pre-production now, is a Short column this month. finished this year. updates this time: romantic comedy called Conception I attended a pre-game alumni For those who will be in New Elisabeth Porter, who lives in and is about nine couples on the event hosted by the Columbia Uni- York City this summer, the Colum- Florida and is a civil litigation at- night they conceive a child, all in versity Club of New England in bia Alumni Association picnic is torney for a firm specializing in rep- different stages of their relation- Cambridge, Mass., before the Lions scheduled for Saturday, July 24, resenting banks in foreclosure cases, ships (e.g., a blind date, a couple on played Harvard in February (and from 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. on South gave birth to Ari Jacob Goldstein on the verge of breaking up, a couple unfortunately, lost). It was great to Lawn. The annual event for families December 7. Congrats, Elizabeth! for whom sex has become a chore, a hear about the team from the coach includes children’s book readings, This in from Francesca Coppa: lesbian couple artificially inseminat- and to catch up with local alumni. field games, face painting and more. “Belatedly surfacing from the ing, a high school couple in over Some “unnamed sources” (i.e., Bill Hope to see some of you there. ‘fourth trimester’ to say that my their heads). As Leila described, Walsh ’89, Larry Walsh ’86 and Fio- husband, Joe, and I had a baby: “These scenes are juxtaposed with na Walsh ’00) filled me in that their Joseph Coppa Rizzo, born October a class of first-graders who sort of brother, Jonathan Walsh, practices REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 23. We are delighted with him and ambush their teacher, asking him law at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt Alumni Office Contacts figure he’ll apply early decision for how babies are made, the idea be- & Mosle, where he is a partner in Alumni Affairs Stella Miele-Zanedis the Class of ’30.” ing that the fairytale version of our the Litigation Group focusing on [email protected] Dave Kaufman is a physician origins is often very different from accounting malpractice, securities 212-851-7846 in Connecticut, specializing in pul- the reality. Connie Britton, Julie litigation and arbitration. Development Rachel Towers monary and critical care medicine. Bowen, Gregory Smith, Jonathan Jon and his wife, Dawn, live in [email protected] He is an assistant professor at Yale, Silverman and Pamela Adlon are in Maplewood, N.J., with their small 212-851-7833 and section chief of pulmonary, it, as am I. I’m also producing. Lots children: daughter Avery, son Will Rachel Cowan Jacobs critical care and sleep medicine at of fun. Lots of work!” and most recent addition, son Finn, 313 Lexington Dr. Bridgeport Hospital, where he also Leila added some news on one born on February 19. 90 Silver Spring, MD 20901 directs respiratory therapy, rapid of our classmates: Valerie Chase Congratulations Jon! 90 evaluation and the Ethics Board. visited Leila in December. Accord- Please send updates about your [email protected] Dave also does clinical research on ing to Leila, Valerie lives in Basel, families, accomplishments, class- I’m excited to see many of you in conditions such as sepsis and acute Switzerland, with her husband, mates, travels, hobbies and so forth a few weeks at Alumni Reunion lung injury. He keeps in touch with Ralph. for future columns.

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Leyla Kokmen to address the civil rights issue of the Fiji men recently — first Dave doing great. Justin works at Citi- 94 440 Thomas Ave. S. our time: inequity in education for Mullinix and Brendan Mullinix group in Hong Kong. Jim works at Minneapolis, MN 55405 children from low-income com- in Nantucket, and then Carter Kendle International in Cincinnati. 94 munities, Alex writes. One of the Burwell in Turks and Caicos. She Kim works at Shamrock in Los [email protected] regions he is working with includes keeps in touch with Marissa Heller Angeles. Pete works at Ingram Well, not a ton to report this time his hometown of New Orleans. Triestman and Maria Rodriguez, Micro in California. Brian works at out. But I am pleased to share the Thanks to the power of Face- who are both doing well. Morgan Stanley in NYC. And Matt happy news that Paul Beddoe- book, Alex caught up with Jimmy Doron Barness was named man- runs his game design consulting Stephens married Jill Allison Hung, who lives a block away in aging director at Goldman Sachs in business in NYC. Nussbaum on September 6. The Cambridge. January. Anastasia Thanopolous Hannah (Trooboff) McCollum wedding took place in Charlottes- This gave me a great reason to (née Yatrakis), whom I recently and Brian McCollum ’97E report ville, Va. The couple lives in New check in with Jimmy, a physician ran into in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, that their daughter, Lena (19 York, where Paul is v.p. for digital who has been in Cambridge for is a real estate broker after having months) is a joy. “She has become media at Comedy Central and Jill five years. He is an ophthalmolo- worked at Nike for several years. quite a master of sign language is executive creative director at gist in private practice, specializing For a little levity in your lives, I through a weekly baby sign class R/GA, a digital design agency. in glaucoma, an eye disease that leave you with this: we take in our neighborhood, and In other news, I recently saw affects mostly older people. “My grandmother started walk- now she enjoys saying the words Alex Rosenstein at a Columbia He reports at least five ophthal- ing five miles a day when she was while signing them simultaneous- University Club of Minnesota mologists from our class: Susan Li- 60. She’s 97 now, and we don’t ly,” Hannah said. The family lives board meeting and was thrilled ang, Peter Maris, Anil Shivaram, know where the hell she is.” in Park Slope. Hannah works part- that he agreed to be our secretary Newman Sund and himself, and —Ellen DeGeneres time at The TEAK Fellowship, and as we continue to formalize our three are glaucoma specialists. Send in more notes! Until next Brian now is at Ranbaxy, a generic club for Minnesota alums. Jimmy attended Allyson Bak- time ... pharmaceutical company in New Please drop me a line with the er’s wedding last year and caught Brunswick. In addition, Hannah latest in your world. As you can up with Jessica Zimmerman, now is director of media relations see, we need more updates! Emily Hu and Elise Feldman. Sarah Katz for Madécasse (www.madecasse. I look forward to catching up 1935 Parrish St. com), a chocolate company started with you all at Alumni Reunion 97 Philadelphia, PA 19130 by Brian’s brother. Madécasse REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 Weekend, Thursday, June 3– 97 sources, manufactures and pack- Alumni Office Contacts [email protected] Sunday, June 6. The weekend will ages chocolate in Madagascar, Alumni Affairs Taruna Sadhoo be packed with activities for the CC ’97 has a number of arrivals to where its founders were in the [email protected] whole family. There will be dinners, report! Rokeia Smith Gravley gave Peace Corps. The company won 212-851-7849 cocktail parties, lectures, dancing birth to a girl, Tyla Elaine, in Novem- a Best in Show award at the 2009 Development Rachel Towers on Low Plaza and Camp Columbia ber. She weighed 8 lbs., 9 oz., and New York City Chocolate Show. [email protected] for kids. It’s a great chance to catch was just in time for Thanksgiving. The chocolate is carried through- 212-851-7833 up with old friends and relive good Carrie Sturts Dossick and Stephen out the country, including at many Janet Lorin times in Morningside Heights. Dossick welcomed Charles Ellis and Whole Foods stores. 127 W. 96th St., #2GH If you haven’t registered, do so Sara Verdie into the world on Janu- Miguel Melendez is busy work- 95 New York, NY 10025 now: http://reunion.college. ary 23 (yes, they are fraternal twins). ing on his www.MiggyMutt.com 95 columbia.edu. Also, Carrie recently received a pro- cartoons and products. [email protected] motion to associate professor with Jeremy Trelstad was married in My son, Ike, and I recently caught tenure, effective September 16, at the Montréal in April 2009 to Lindsay up with David Webber and his Ana S. Salper University of Washington, College of Wise. Adnan Qadir ’96 was in atten- son, Boaz. David, his wife, Irit, and 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA Built Environments, Department of dance. Jeremy has been working for Boaz are getting ready to move to 96 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Construction Management. Rushika Athenahealth (ATHN: NSDQ) since Boston. David is leaving New York 96 Conroy gave birth to her second graduating from Columbia and is [email protected] after living here almost continu- child, Amalia Grace, on May 14, director of recruiting. ously since we started college in Greetings, classmates. Josh Axel- 2009. Amalia joins her brother, Nevin Shivali Shah is based in Wash- 1991. rad sent in an entertaining piece (2). Rushika is halfway through her ington, D.C., where she is an immi- David has spent the past two of news: “I stayed under the radar fellowship in pediatric endocrinol- gration attorney, immigrant rights years as an academic fellow at for a long time due to combined ogy at Columbia University Medical activist and writes a column on NYU’s Center for Law and Busi- shame and paranoia. I worked in Center. immigration. Shivali writes: “I’ve ness, where he has been conducting finance for a while and hated my- Eric Wolf is married with two been happy playing with Moha research in the fields of securities self, then, for five years, I played children, Jacob (4) and Lily (1), Desai ’96’s little bundle of joy and fraud and securities class actions. cards for a living, but turned out lives in Great Neck, N.Y., and regularly hang out with Maggie He is joining the faculty of Boston to still hate myself. I was a card was promoted to assistant clinical Osdoby Katz. I’m in touch with University Law School as an as- counter at blackjack, doing the sort professor of ophthalmology at Co- Swati Khurana as well and was sociate professor, teaching civil of stunt associated in the public lumbia. Eric is an ophthalmologist happy to host her on the D.C. leg of procedure and securities regulation consciousness with MIT. Columbia in the Bronx and was accepted to her East Coast road trip. I recently while continuing his research. kids are all right at it, too.” the American College of Surgeons. got back in touch with Kavita Ku- David writes that he looks for- Josh writes that he made money, George Shuster helped start a mar Puri, who also is in D.C. My ward to seeing more of his 811A then lost it, then wrote a memoir, nonprofit foundation to preserve husband and I stayed with Michael Carman roommate, Alex Cortez, Repeat Until Rich: A Professional as a state park the site of the former Pignatello when he was in Beijing. who lives in Cambridge, and hopes Card Counter’s Chronicle of the Black- Rocky Point amusement park in his Mike’s Mandarin is awesome. It to reconnect with other Columbians jack Wars, published in March. Josh hometown of Warwick, R.I., which was really helpful when I was nego- living in Boston. can be reached via http://axelrad. operated for 150 years until entering tiating for better prices in the Beijing “Any tips on how to raise chil- net/blog. receivership in 1995. He encour- furniture market.” dren to be good New York sports Congratulations on your book, ages anyone with an interest in old fans in the Bay State would be Josh! amusement parks, open space or el- much appreciated,” he wrote. Alexandra Speck Crowley and eemosynary frolics of aging lawyers Sandra P. Angulo Chen Alex recently started a new her husband, Jamie, live on Cape to visit GetThePoint.org. 10209 Day Ave. adventure as the regional director Cod, where Alex is a weekly on-air Matthew Wang recently went 98 Silver Spring, MD 20910 of growth and sustainability for arts and culture reporter for a skiing at Mammoth Lakes, Calif., 98 [email protected] the Knowledge Is Power Program National Public Radio (NPR) affili- with Justin Alevizos, Jim Antho- (www.kipp.org), the nation’s largest ate on the Cape and Islands. Alex ny, Kip Hamilton, Pete Janda ’97E Happy spring, Class of ‘98! Con- charter school network seeking has randomly run into some of and Brian Sauvigne. Everyone is gratulations are in order for Joanna

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Chung, who has been named sists of nonprofits, think tanks and bureau chief of the Law Group for start-ups. Let the ’99ers out there The Wall Street Journal. Formerly know about our Web site: www. the U.S. correspondent covering imaginaryoffice.com. financial regulation and enforce- “Since grad school, I’ve lived ment for the Financial Times, Joanna in Chicago, where I am adjunct now will cover law and direct faculty in visual communication WSJ’s legal coverage, as well as the design at the School of the Art law blog on WSJ.com. Institute of Chicago. From time to Unfortunately, I don’t have any time, I see other ’99 friends. The more news, but let me once again usuals are Jenn Kaufman and invite those of you who have never Ethan Fischer, who live here, but sent in an update to let us all know we also get a string of conference what you’re up to. You don’t have to attendees passing in and out of be newly married or new parents! town, such as Chris Hardin, who Every now and then, someone recently was here for an academic will e-mail me asking for the publishing event.” whereabouts of certain classmates, Chris, I want to hear your side so I’m putting out an APB for Ken of the story. Please write me. Thomson and Bob Welsh. If you’re Rachel Jackson is currently one reading this, there are alums inter- of my favorite people. I recently Omosede Idehen ’00, ’06 Business, married Gregor Licul in September ested in what you’ve been doing received this e-mail from her: in Lovran, Croatia. Joining them were (left to right) Ivar Draganja ’03L; since graduation. “After reading the updates from Rana Yates Draganja ’00, ’05L; Louis-Simon Ferland ’06 Business; Tami our fellow classmates in the last Chuang ’06 Business; the groom; the bride; Erica Easley ’00; Yuliya CCT, I felt compelled to send an Smyk; Ben Giesmann ’00; CCT class correspondent Prisca Bae ’00; Alicia Lauren Becker update of my own. I am currently Dooley ’00; and Danny Rappaport. 19 Devalan St., Apt. 3N traveling around the country doing PHOTO: Gea Golovic 99 Brooklyn, NY 11231 the film festival circuit with my 99 short film, 3 Things. This movie has [email protected] been a passion project for several BBQ-related.) Wait, what’s Gina yes, even though I’d never done Hello there! I hope the past couple years, and I co-wrote, produced been up to since 1999? Gina oblig- anything like that. Being onstage months have treated you well. Class and starred in the film. There are ingly replies: “I’ve been back in and telling stories was amazing Notes news items are trickling in at several known, amazingly talented my hometown of Kansas City, the for a lot of reasons, including that an alarming rate, so brace yourself people who worked on the project. one I swore I’d never go back to. I I discovered that I liked using for some compelling updates. We are premiering here in Los came home ‘for the summer’ and my literal voice, and not just the First, though, I’m pleased to of- Angeles at the Method Film Fes- discovered a vibrant arts commu- kind of ‘voice’ authors use. As a fer you some trivia. On a brisk day tival and soon after that, we will nity that I became a part of without writer, I have always put a lot of in February, I saw one of our class- have our East Coast premiere at even thinking about it. By the end energy into making sure the reader mates dodging across a vacant lot the Charleston International Film of that summer, I was so deeply can really hear the words. I treat toward Clinton Street (Brooklyn). Festival. For more information, go involved in so many things that I punctuation as a means of letting He was bundled against the cold in to www.3thingsfilm.com.” didn’t want to leave. Since then, people know where and how to a green hooded coat, though once George Demos wrote in with I’ve developed a career and style pause, etc. It was such a relief to he appeared topless in a Wood- this news: After serving for seven of writing that walks a fine line be- just talk. Inspired by the experi- bridge Hall art show. Shortly after years as an enforcement attorney tween art and journalism. I didn’t ence, I applied for an internship this sighting, I encountered an- at the U.S. Securities and Exchange invent creative nonfiction writing, with KCUR so I could learn what a other ’99er on the train, a novelist Commission, where he worked not by a long shot ... What I mean person needs to know to do radio. who was wearing a tweed overcoat on some of the most prominent is that I have been writing things I was further surprised to learn with long lapels. The afternoon corporate fraud cases, George that are a little too literary and that I enjoyed running around with passed without incident, but after Demos now is running for the U.S. personal to be entirely journalistic, a microphone and editing audio in dinner I ran into yet another man Congress in the first district of New and newspapers and magazines a sound booth. It wasn’t until a few from our class. His coat was dark York. The district covers eastern have, much to my amazement, years later that I got a job with the and his wife and her twin sister Long Island, holds a Republican been publishing them anyway. I’ve station. The job didn’t involve any were in the Class of 2000. Write registration advantage and is cur- worked for alternative weeklies, running around with microphones me with your guesses or if you rently held by incumbent Democrat the local daily, for national maga- or audio editing. It was/has been just want to find out who I saw. Tim Bishop. Additional information zines, for coffee shops, museums a live in-studio gig, which I love Actually, if you are reading this at on George’s campaign can be found and, most recently, for Kansas that much more. Again, totally all, please write me. Consider this at www.georgedemos.com. City’s station for NPR news. I’m surprising for me. I was always the testimonial from Esther Chak: “I I also received a helpful e-mail working toward my M.F.A. in shy kid, so yeah. Who would have can’t say I don’t owe something to from Ethan Rouen, my long- creative writing.” guessed that I like talking for a live Class Notes. After spotting their suffering editor at CCT. “Subject: As co-host of The Walt Bodine radio audience for an hour every wedding photo in Columbia College FW: News Alert: Tinsley Mortimer Show, Gina’s been live on the air day? But I do.” Today, I reconnected with Kelley CC99 - article.” Key takeaways: every weekday morning for the Unfortunately, however, Gina’s Kreitz and Westin Smith in Provi- “Tinsley Mortimer is the center past couple years and is a genuine leaving her radio gig. What’s next? dence, R.I. in 2005, rekindling a of a new reality television show KC institution. “Well, in some ways the answer Hartley Hall friendship from junior called High Society.” The article Next question: How did Gina is ‘I don’t know.’ But in the short year.” Convincing stuff! appeared in the Richmond Times get involved in radio? “When I term, I’ve been hired to write a Esther continues, “I spent a few Dispatch, and there was another worked for The Pitch [KC’s alterna- book of profiles of Kansas women years in Rhode Island working about her recently in the New York tive weekly], I also got pretty born during the 19th century. Ev- on my M.F.A. in graphic design Times; she reportedly giggled a lot involved in Heeb Magazine from ery chapter will be a mini-biogra- from RISD and graduated in 2007. and ordered food by color. afar. I started out as a contributing phy of an impressive woman who I’ve since started a collaborative Though I haven’t been back writer, then became a contribut- bucked convention. I’m so excited graphic design studio, Imaginary home much these past couple of ing editor, then associate editor. I to throw myself into researching Office, with a friend in New York, years, hearing Gina Kaufmann on went to NYC to help with a Heeb and telling their stories. Given the Mary-Jo Valentino. Right now, the radio is one of the best things Storytelling event and was asked geographic location, with Missouri we are focused on working with about visiting Kansas City. (The to put on the first Heeb Storytelling being a slave state and Kansas a mission-driven clients, which con- other best things are primarily outside of NYC here in KC. I said free state, a good handful of them

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tion from the March/April issue: up with everyone in June, here are Kevin Aptowicz ’99E is married to Reunion Committee updates: Katie Eyer, who is a lawyer, not a Michael Shen is a dad! Michael, nurse. his wife, Erika, and adorable son, Please write me if you thought Spencer live in Los Angeles. Spen- this column was either helpful or cer was born last August. irrelevant, and please be sure to Claude Roxborough recently check out the next issue’s column married his high school love, because it’s gonna knock your Christine, and lives in the D.C. socks off, big-time! area. He is a corporate attorney with Miles & Stockbridge and also serves as the president (U.S.) of the REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 South African Chamber of Com- Alumni Office Contacts merce in America. He encourages Alumni Affairs Mia Gonsalves Wright folks interested in attending South [email protected] Africa/Africa-related business 212-851-7977 events, most of which are in Development Eleanor L. Coufos ’03 New York, to join the chamber’s [email protected] network (www.sacca.biz). He’s Nancy Perla ’01 and Matt Michaelis hosted a “star-studded” wedding 212-851-7483 also thankful for Facebook, even in Phoenix in November. The stars in attendance included John Balzano Prisca Bae though someone from another Ivy ’01, Andrea Cherkerzian ’01, Joyce Chou ’01, Dina Epstein ’01, Billy King- 344 W. 17th St., Apt. 3B League school created it, because sland ’01, Annie Lainer ’01, Patricia Marinoff ’02, Dr. Sarah Palestrant ’02, 00 New York, NY 10011 it’s one of the only ways he gets to Joe Rezek ’01, Jamie Rubin ’01 Barnard, Chelsea Scott ’01 Barnard, Victo- 00 see some of his old CU buddies. ria Spodek (née Vinarsky) ’01 Barnard, Melissa Tominac ’02, Brandon Von [email protected] Charles Saliba is in China and Tobel ’01, Susan Wilsey ’01 (née Pereira) and CCT class correspondent Reshan Richards was married writes “No wife or children or any- Jonathan Gordin ’01. PHOTO: Rohanna Mertens in June 2009 to Jennifer Butler in thing like that, yet … I work more Wilton, Conn. Several Columbia than full-time at D-22 (www.d-22. alums were in attendance. Reshan cn) and Maybe Mars (www.maybe will be stories about people risking number of people. Coming back to is a technology administrator at mars.org) and was recently back their necks for freedom. I’m also my hometown has made my time a school in Manhattan, and he is in the States to bring six bands to still finishing up my M.F.A., and at Columbia feel a little like a dream, back at Columbia working on his SXSW and then go on tour with have another year to go with that, honestly. But I keep in touch with doctorate at Teachers College. three of them to California (for so I don’t know whether I’ll take Jen Yang, Chris Mullis, Sharmaine Kim Worly moved to Israel more info: http://maybemars.org/ on another job until I’ve accom- Heng and Ethan Fischer. Jen lives nearly four years ago. She lives in index.php/shows/chineseinva plished that. But I’m all about the in New York and works for a bank Tel Aviv and is an attorney. Kim is siontour-2010).” odd job. Last summer, I worked in compliance. I don’t totally know getting married in Israel on June Charles is a founding partner on a non-confinement sheep farm what that means, but I have long 11 to Oren Salzman, a computer of D-22, a Beijing music club, and that makes artisanal sheep’s milk since made peace with the fact that engineer. Kim and Oren’s dogs, Maybe Mars Records, an indepen- cheese, and I am going to do a little she’s one of my best friends, and I Bamba and Sifaka, will walk them dent music label. In his spare time, more work for them (mostly at the don’t understand what she does. down the aisle. Charles is working toward a mas- city market) again this summer. Chris lives in Australia with his wife Tanya Wright (née Bank); ter’s in international development So that’s odd job No 1. Currently, and son and recently got a Ph.D. in husband, Will, and their 2-year- at Tsinghua University in Beijing. I’m writing about last summer on modern Japanese history or some- old daughter, Lily, are excited to [Editor’s note: CCT profiled Saliba the sheep farm. As I was wrap- thing like that, and is teaching ESL. announce the newest addition to in January/February: www.college. ping up my first year in the M.F.A. Sharmaine is a tax lawyer and is get- their family: Ella Ruby was born columbia.edu/cct/jan_feb10.] program and also doing a daily ting married in the fall. And Ethan on November 13. The family lives Juliet Ross writes, “I am a talk show, I was seriously dying of is taking the restaurant world by in Ann Arbor, Mich., where Tanya psychologist in private practice in being cooped up behind computer storm, as near as I can tell, and living is hoping to finish her Ph.D. in New York and am also production monitors and sought out a summer the good life in Chicago. Whew! education at the University of editor of the journal Psychoanalytic job that would allow me to move Harder than it looks, being on the Michigan in spring 2011. Perspectives. My husband, Dan more than my fingertips and get other end of the interview ... ” Tanya reports, “Traci (née Burstein, is a senior associate at outside. It turned out to be an But I think she handled it really Leiderman) Goldstein ’99 and her Willkie Farr & Gallagher and does experience both more challenging well. Thanks, Gina! husband, Brendan, are proud to a lot of pro-bono work in elec- and more beautiful than I would Here are some final tidbits, announce the birth of their son, tion law. We recently saw Annie have imagined. I also met some chums, to get you through the Maxwell Logan, on January 5. Ulevitch and Susie Freeman, who of the most amazing people. I next two months. Susan Harlan (Traci graduated early, but she both live near us on the UWS. am writing about what led all of accepted a tenure-track job teach- started with the Class of 2000 as We spent a lovely weekend in the them (and me) from other careers ing English at Wake Forest. Jay my Carman 12 hallmate.) Traci is Berkshires with Sander Cohan to a sheep farm. All of our stories Cosel passed the California bar an optometrist, and she lives in and his wife, Katie. Don Saelinger intermingle in this sort of magical exam and is wrapping up his NYC with her growing family.” and Katherine Dube ’00 Barnard (to me) setting. What I’m writing studies to be a master of laws. It’s unbelievable that our 10- moved to San Francisco and had is book length, but I don’t want (How many laws do you have to year reunion is fast approaching, a baby, Andrew Nathan (Nate), in to jinx it by saying I’m writing a master, Jay?) Mike Erman, now Thursday, June 3–Sunday, June 6. December.” Sander and his wife, book. However, I will say that if residing with a charming foreign- The Reunion Committee has been Katie, live in Boston, and Sander any Columbia alumni are publish- er, made some excellent chili last hard at work, and you won’t be works in the energy sector. ers or literary agents and want to winter — it was spicy on the back disappointed! Some highlights Alex Conway, also on the Re- give me a hand with that, bring it! I end. Nina Tannenbaum, also af- include a Thursday night reception union Committee, was wonderful also translated a novella by Gabriel filiated with a charming foreigner, at the Heights, Friday night party enough to provide an incredible Garcia Márquez, one of my favor- wrote in to say that “Stacy Rotner, on the Intrepid(!), Saturday night update: “Most recently, I had ites, and the desperate plea for a Scott Napolitano and Dave Mat- cocktails and dinner … and cham- a mini-Theta reunion just days publisher applies to that as well.” teini ’01 were seen at a Columbia pagne and dancing on the Steps! before Whitney Weems Mogav- Does Gina keep in touch with Private Equity networking night. For classmates with kids, there will ero gave birth to her daughter, anyone from our class, and if so, Thanks and congratulations to be some wonderful kid-friendly Hadley Brooks Mogavero, on what are they up to? “I keep in all of you, whether you deserve it activities on campus on Saturday. February 8. Joining me were Laura touch with an embarrassingly small or not, and please note this correc- While I look forward to catching Hearn, Marian Lee ’00 Barnard,

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Maura Munnelly Determann I am still in New York City but and Mariel Munnelly ’02. Laura have left the law. I recently joined lives in Brooklyn and works for the Office of Corporate Engage- Bloomberg. She recently ran the ment at Goldman Sachs where New York Marathon and is doing I was lucky enough to run into great! Maura lives in New Jersey Jenn Lew Goldstone ’95 and even with her husband and works in luckier to finagle an update from New York for the Boy Scouts of a fellow reunion classmate: “Jenn America, while Mariel is set to get Lew Goldstone ’95 for the last married in just a few months in year has been a v.p. at SeaChange Jamaica! Marian is married and Capital Partners, a nonprofit that lives in New York a stone’s throw arranges funding of nonprofits from campus and works for Condé involved in education reform Nast. The night was filled with fun founded by retired Goldman Sachs memories about our four years at partners. She has two boys, Max school and in Theta, and everyone (4) and Charlie (1), and is married Daniel Dykema ’03 and Nikki Thompson ’03 Barnard were married in is excited for the reunion.” to CNN Senior Producer Tom Brooklyn, N.Y., in October. Joining the fun were (back row, left to right) Also via Alex: Her brother, Goldstone ’94 Cornell. She is espe- Gaurav Shah ’03, Anand Venkatesan ’03, the groom, Matthew Scherer Chris Conway ’95, lives with his cially looking forward to the kids’ ’03 and William Hu ’03; and (front row, left to right) Michelle Hodara ’03, wife, Cindy, and their dog, Kim, in programming at her 15th reunion Priya Purushothaman ’03, the bride, Rebecca Capua ’03 Barnard, Shelly Manhattan around the corner from and the adult evening events, and Mittal ’03 and Alison McDonald ’03. Alex. He started Green T Digital. is booking the sitter now!” PHOTO: Andy Rogers “Our goal is to help individuals and Finally, Omosede Idehen and small businesses take advantage Grigor Licul were married in a of the latest technologies, while gorgeous mountaintop ceremony com) has been featured on People 28 at an oceanfront private estate helping them reduce their impact in Lovran, Croatia, in September. magazine’s Celebrity Baby Blog as on Maui. They were joined by 84 on the planet,” Chris says. His sister Several friends flew in from all over well as on Daily Candy. I’m confi- guests for several days in paradise, is very happy to have a tech consul- the world for the wedding, includ- dent Jamie will continue to take the and they were thrilled that so many tant a block away at all times! ing myself. Other guests included business to even higher levels! of their Columbia friends were Alex continues: “Via the con- Erica Easley; Alicia Dooley and Now for some exciting baby able to make it. After the wedding, nective powers of Facebook, I still her husband, Danny Rappaport; news. Simon Sandoval-Moshen- the couple spent their honeymoon have the pleasure of talking to some Rana Yates and her husband, Ivar berg and his wife, Paola, welcomed traveling throughout Thailand. of my favorite characters from Draganja ’03L; Ben Giesmann and Camilo on February 18. He weighed Abena and Omar live in Brooklyn, college, including Ryan Rosenfeld, his wife, Yuliya Smyk; Louis-Simon 7 lbs., 5 oz. David Beatus and his and they both work in Manhattan. who is living it up in the Pacific Ferland ’06 Business; and Tami wife, Ellie, welcomed Asher Josef Abena is an attorney and Omar Northwest. Q Beck lives in Austin, Chuang ’06 Business. The festivities on February 26. He weighed 8 lbs. works in leveraged finance. Texas, where he recently started lasted all weekend and involved Congratulations to the moms, dads Those in attendance at the wed- Famigo, a company dedicated to pasta, truffles and exploring and future Columbians (maybe?). ding included Kwabina Appiah ’78 building games to help families Grigor’s hometown, Opatija. The Camille Delaitte reports: “2009 Business, Kofi Boakye ’10, David play together. Also in the mix, Mark photogenic wedding lasted for 12 was a big year for us! Akhill Simpson ’01E, Franklin Amoo ’02, Lewicky is living it up in his home- hours and was the first wedding Chopra and I were married on Selom Gasinu ’04E, Alexander town of Chicago. I hope to see all of I’d attended where guests danced May 24 in Columbia, Mo. Many of Gumbs ’07 Business, Raefer Ga- these guys at reunion. between courses. The last course — our dear friends from Columbia briel ’07 Business, Cynthia Boakye “I also occasionally get to see a traditional Croatian soup — was made the trip to Missouri for our ’94 PH, Chris Motley ’03, Reginald Natalia Mehlman-Petrezela. Nata- served well after 2 a.m. The happy dual Hindu/Christian wedding Cash ’04, Adrienne Bowman, Van- lia, who is a full-fledged professor couple resides on the Upper West ceremonies and celebration. Co- essa HS-Doyle (née Hutchinson- at the New School, spends her free Side. [See photo.] lumbians in attendance included Szekely), Jon-Mychal Bowman ’99, time with her husband and young See you all in June at reunion! Usman Tahir, Sejal Shah, Amy Avrielle Gallagher, Guambi Mako- son and as an IntenSati instructor Please register at http://alumni. Kimpel, Namrata Tripathi, Els- so ’01E, Akua Boakye ’11 Business, at Equinox. Talk about keeping college.columbia.edu. Don’t forget peth Wilson, Rodman Williams, Damali Slowe ’10, Dionne Wilson busy! Natalia, Heidi Wolf ’00 to also make a donation to the Cassia Mosdell, Sofia Berger, Gumbs ’07 Business, Jacqueline Barnard and I are all excited for the Columbia College Fund at www. Sheila Lavu, Krish Devidoss, Corona ’02 and Danae Mullings- September wedding of Annabel college.columbia.edu/giveonline. Gareth White ’02 Barnard, Lina Makoso ’01E, ’08 CE. Schnitzer ’00 Barnard. Our class goal is 200 donors and Chopra Haldar ’03E and Kavita The family of Tyler Ugolyn told “I also hear from Manelle Nunez we are currently at 102 donors. Kumar Puri ’97. Following our me about the important work the Martino, who is living the life in wedding celebrations, we headed foundation they established in his Annapolis as the mother of three to Boston for my graduation from memory is doing. children with her husband, Peter Jonathan Gordin Harvard Business School. Then, to “The Tyler Ugolyn Foundation Martino, and as the founder/owner 3030 N. Beachwood Dr. complete the month of life change, was established in 2001 in memory of Capital Teas in Washington, D.C. 01 Los Angeles, CA 90068 I moved back to New York after of our beloved 23-year-old son, “Me, I’m living in New York 01 two years away, and we settled Tyler Ugolyn, a Columbia College [email protected] working for Hunter Public Rela- into a new apartment in Chelsea. graduate and NCAA student- tions. I’m training for the New Hi there. I rarely have updates on We are enjoying finally living in athlete varsity basketball player, Jersey Marathon and a triathlon in my family, but I have to say it’s the same city again! We managed who tragically lost his life on Sep- Montauk. I’m using my training been a busy few months for us. I to sneak away in August and spent tember 11, 2001, while employed as an opportunity to support my became gainfully employed again our honeymoon exploring Japan, at the World Trade Center as an friend’s new initiative — the Man- in March, working for Mercer Out- returning to New York just in time investment analyst for Fred Alger dala House — which teaches yoga, sourcing as a business strategist. for me to start a new job at the Management on the 93rd floor of meditation and breathing to vic- I’m excited to be working again, Boston Consulting Group. Akhill is the first tower. In September 2001, tims of sexual assault in current/ though I can’t deny how amaz- keeping busy at his job at rightme- Sports Illustrated published a beau- post conflict countries. I’m also ing it has been to spend so much dia. 2009 was a whirlwind. Here’s tiful tribute, ‘Picture This Perfect,’ gearing up for the third annual cel- quality time with Jamie and our hoping 2010 is half as fun!” written by Jeff Pearlman in Tyler’s ebration of NYC Wildflower Week, daughter Julian, (20 months). I’ve Almost nine years after their memory and honor. an initiative my brother’s wife also loved every minute of watch- first date while Columbia seniors, “The foundation is committed started. And I’m actively involved ing my wife’s clothing business Abena Boakye and Omar Slowe to providing support to youth with planning our reunion.” grow. Milkstars (www.milkstars. finally tied the knot on November basketball, with an emphasis on

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Democratic political campaigns. nationwide rollout in April and [Last spring], she managed a May, the widest reach of any of her successful city-wide City Council projects to date. election and now is managing a 24-county judicial race. She remains one dissertation away Angela Georgopoulos from completing her Ph.D. at the 200 Water St., Apt. 1711 University of Texas in media stud- 04 New York, NY 10038 ies In December, Lien De Brouck- 04 [email protected] ere paid a visit to Austin, where they enjoyed Austin’s excellent I hope you’re all doing well! Please food and nightlife. Katherine also don’t forget to send me any and all visited with Rachel Gershman in updates you have. On to the news: New York while she was home in Tia Sherringham moved back New Jersey for the holidays.” to New York in August 2009 and Eliana Meirowitz Nelson ’05 and Lev Meirowitz Nelson were married Brian Tang is working on his is clerking for the Hon. Barbara S. in Massachusetts in November with many Columbia alumni in atten- “HBO for gamers” site, www. Jones (Southern District of New dance. Celebrating with them were (left to right, standing/kneeling) goodgametv.com, creating, produc- York). She is thrilled to be back and Ben Greene; Seth Wax ’03; Jason Fruithandler ’05 GS; Etan Greenbaum ing, distributing and selling online reconnecting with old friends. ’06 GS; Rachel Pomerantz ’06E; Erin Kade ’03 GS; Jonathan (Yono) Re- video geared toward video gamers. David Neistadt lives in Tribeca ich ’04, ’07L; Zachary Jacobs ’07L; Julie Altman ’06 GSAS; Steve Melzer Katie Rose Thornton is finish- and is at Goldman Sachs, where he ’05; Leslie Berliner Shanken ’68 GS, ’84 GSAS; Edith Cohen ’64 Barnard; ing her part-time M.B.A. at the Fox has been working for 5½ years. In Leora Fishman ’74 Barnard; the bride; Carol Glass ’75 Barnard; James School of Business at Temple. She Washington, D.C., Nyia Noel has Bondarchuk ’05; Dina Herbert ’05 GS; Adam Levine ’10 GSAS; Michal is working in marketing/adver- been practicing yoga and enjoying Shinnar ’06 Barnard, and Rebecca Blatt ’06 TC; (front row, left to right) tising in Philadelphia and heard some time off before starting her Elizabeth Stone Jacobs ’05 Barnard; Susan Rosenblum ’71 GS; Tracy President Lee C. Bollinger speak at residency program. She received Massel ’06 Barnard; Judith Samuels Meirowitz ’73 SW; Carol Singer ’74 the National Constitution Center an M.D. and an M.P.H. from the TC; Jessica Horwitz Fruithandler ’06 Barnard; Danielle Holtz ’05 Barnard; in March. Sabine Bejori completed University of Michigan Medical Rachel Grant Meyer ’05; Suzanne Schneider ’05, ’13 GSAS; and Joanna her M.B.A. in strategy and market- School and School of Public Health. Kabat ’06 Barnard. PHOTO: Max Flatow ing at NYU Stern and joined Avon Nyia has been reconnecting with as an associate brand manager for old friends and classmates in the Global Skincare, Clearskin brand, D.C. area such as Natassia Rozario, court refurbishment and providing will be held in her hometown of in January. Alodia Gabre-Kidan and her financial support to character- Richfield Springs. Her actual wed- Carter Reum writes, “Still work- freshman-year roommate, Karen building educational programs ding, a very intimate ceremony, ing hard on my start-up alcohol Love. and skills clinics to children in took place in June in Stockholm, brand, VeeV (my brother, Courtney Congratulations to Ben Falik urban settings. The foundation is her husband’s hometown. ’01, is my partner), which has and his wife, A.J., who are proud a tax-exempt, nonprofit, charitable quickly gone from being only avail- to belatedly announce the birth of organization approved by the IRS able out of the back of our car to be- Judah Matthew (CC ’31?). Jamie under section 501(C)(3). EIN:06- Michael Novielli coming one of the best-selling in the Hodari was on hand for the bris, 1632382. Information on the foun- World City Apartments country and now available on Virgin and Jordan Heimer stopped in dation and our beloved Tyler is 03 Attention Michael J. America and in about 40 states. Still Detroit while driving cross-country found on www.tylerugolyn.com.” 03 Novielli, A608 loving the fun and the sun of L.A., in order to meet the lad. Plans for We thank the Ugolyns for stay- Block 10, No 6. Jinhui Road, too, and can’t wait to go to Nick his first trip to New York are in the ing in touch and letting Tyler’s Chaoyang District Solaro’s wedding in the fall!” works. friends know about the important Beijing, 100020, People’s In September, Priya Purushotha- Finally, a fantastic update from work they are doing to honor his Republic of China man released her first album, Sam- past Class President Khalid Ali: memory. [email protected] arpan, a traditional Hindustani clas- “Once upon a time a long, long Please stay in touch. I’d love to sical vocal album featuring Priya time ago (July 2007), I quit my job hear what the class will be up to With the close of another academic on voice and accompanied by tabla at Pepsi in New York, sold most of this summer. year, it is time to congratulate the and harmonium. It is available for my worldly belongings (includ- Class of 2010 on their accomplish- purchase on iTunes. ing my beloved limited edition ments and welcome them to the Sheila Dvorak’s dedication (not really) 1998 Nissan Maxima), Sonia Dandona young alumni family. It’s also always to independent filmmaking has packed a backpack, bought a Hirdaramani nice to celebrate the accomplish- paid off in a big way in 2010. For one-way ticket to London along 02 2 Rolling Dr. ments of our classmates, so let’s the second consecutive year, she with a Eurorail Pass and took off 02 Old Westbury, NY 11568 turn to the updates. had a feature film premiere at the on a journey to fulfill one of my [email protected] Katori Hall’s latest play, The Sundance Film Festival. Sheila lifelong dreams of seeing Europe Beyonce Effect, was performed at was the line producer of Arm- and South Asia. I didn’t know how Hi all. Hope everyone is doing well! the Horse Trade Theater in Febru- less, a dark comedy about a man long the trip would last or what I Please keep sending your updates ary as part of The Fire This Time with a compulsion to cut off his would do if and when I returned to me at [email protected]. Festival. Katori describes the play: arms, which was part of the NEXT to the United States. It seemed a bit Joshua Krafchin is marrying “In opposite corners of the world, category, spotlighting guerrilla mad, and older relatives minced Miriam Stone ’03 in July. In addi- three brown women — one Indian, filmmaking. Children of Invention, no words in letting me know that it tion to being an online marketing one Ugandan and one American which was written and directed by certainly was mad. It didn’t matter, consultant, he founded Newyap — struggle with their quest for Tze Chun ’02 and was associate- though. It was time for something city.com. lighter skin and European features produced by Sheila, who also was new. Jennifer L. Lopez lives in Ma- in a world where ‘if you white you acting coach for the cast, started its “It was a mad time in world drid and teaches dance. She also right and if you black, get back.’ ” theatrical run in Boston, New York affairs as well (although no one teaches dance workshops all over Darrell Silver launched a tech- and Los Angeles in February and seemed to have a clue about the Europe: in Edinburgh, Dublin, nology company, Perpetually (www. March. Sheila’s most recent project greater madness — the global Paris, Stockholm and Warsaw. She perpetually.com), at the tech startup is See What I’m Saying: The Deaf economic meltdown — to come is teaching in Amsterdam and Oslo community’s largest conference, Entertainers Documentary. Sheila the following year). Just recently, in the spring. TechCrunch50, in September. associate produced the world some Muslim guys of Pakistani ori- Jennifer will be having a post- “Katherine Haenschen lives in premiere at the Egyptian Theater gin (like yours truly) had tried to wedding celebration on July 31. It Austin, Texas, where she manages in Hollywood in March, and a ram a truck into Glasgow Airport

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Nick Cain ’06 Helps Students in the Developing World

B y Jo s h u a Ro b i n s o n ’08

ick Cain ’06 was doing world access funding for higher everything he was sup- education. Nposed to do on his way “These are students who to law school. An American certainly didn’t have anywhere Studies major, he had taken the to go for a student loan,” Cain constitutional law classes and says. gotten the grades, he had earned Vittana, which is active in himself a job as a Manhattan Peru, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Viet- paralegal and he had slogged nam, Cambodia and Mongolia,­ through the repetitive grind. helps local financial institutions All he had left to do was package student loans and pro- send out the applications. vides the capital, which comes The only problem was that, from online contributions. Stu- by then, he didn’t feel like go- dents can take out loans of up ing to law school so soon. to $1,500. But, Cain notes, the “I wanted to do something online contributions aren’t do- drastically different,” Cain re- nations — every cent is repaid Nick Cain ’06, shown here in Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua, in October members. 2009 with one of Vittana’s first borrowers, works with Vittana to by the student through Vittana So the San Diego native set provide student loans. within three years. out on a path he never imag- photo: marcela solis/afodenic More than 1,300 people ined himself taking — one that have made donations online, would wind through Rwanda Brotchner says. “What I was But Cain felt the need to go for a total of $155,000, and and Paraguay only to drop him looking for was somebody who back to the developing world. more than 230 students have in Seattle, where he is devot- would not get flustered. Some- In early 2009, he began look- received loans. ing himself to helping students body who could see a situation ing for another opportunity to Cain’s job is to work closely access higher education across that was completely unusual to help ambitious people track with the microfinance institu- the developing world with the them, and not panic.” down the funds they needed. tions and teach them how to microloan company Vittana. In Cain, Brotchner said he This time he set off for Paraguay structure the loans. These days, Cain’s journey began when found someone who fit that with a small company named Vittana is primarily involved a law firm colleague men- description. Kiva, whose goal is to help with students in Nicaragua, tioned his work with Orphans Asked to describe his duties small entrepreneurs secure and Cain is in charge of laying of Rwanda, a nonprofit dedi- in Kigali, Cain hardly knows “microloans” — tiny loans from the groundwork there. To him, cated to helping young people where to begin. He says he local banks, which go a long way it’s a job that goes far beyond who were affected by the 1994 worked on everything from sift- in places like Paraguay. With his numbers, countless hours on Rwandan genocide attend col- ing through applications for the notebook and video camera, the phone and a lot of frequent lege. Remembering a particularly scholarships to teaching English Cain’s job was to interview loan flyer miles. inspirational class on the treat- to tracking down carpenters to applicants. “I knew that financial aid ment of minorities taught by Liz build desks for his classroom. It was there that Cain learned and loans were the only way Ouyang his senior year, Cain was “All the things that you’d hop the nuts and bolts of microfi- I would have ever gotten my intrigued. Within a few months, on the Internet for or look in nance, which served him well education,” he explains. “And he had accepted a six-month the phone book to get done in when he returned to the United having the Columbia name on job with the organization. the United States take ages in a States last summer. Almost my degree has been opening In March 2008, Cain packed place like Rwanda,” he says. immediately, he got in on the doors for me the whole way his bags for Kigali, Rwanda’s And still, the six months ground floor of Vittana (www. through. So, as someone who’s capital city. It was a long way Cain spent there seemed to fly vittana.org), which perfectly had that, it just made sense to from his desk in Manhattan, and by. He came back stateside in combined his experiences of the work on it for others.” not just in air miles. September 2008 just in time to previous two years. Based on “You can’t prepare somebody work on the home stretch of the increasingly popular system Joshua Robinson ’08 is a for that,” Orphans of Rwanda the Obama campaign in North of microfinance, Vittana helps freelance writer based in Man- executive director Michael Carolina. young people in the developing hattan. in England. As such, suspicion the continent during the next few and finally, in September, made my available for me in Dubai. (Why of anyone resembling me was months. During the course of my way to India. I spent the next 1½ Dubai? Honestly, just for the sake pretty high everywhere, and so I travels, I partied with gangstas months touring India and visiting of trying something new.) I spent a was expecting a pretty tough time from Paris suburbs, befriended for the first time my parents’ child- week in Dubai, met with the team crossing borders. a Ferrari engineer, fought with hood homes. there for a meeting/interview and “Surprisingly, this was not the tomatoes at La Tomatina festival in “By November, I decided to then left for Karachi, Pakistan. case; Europeans, I soon found, Spain, scaled the Atlas Mountains start wrapping up my trip and “In Pakistan, I met Leena, who were much more relaxed about the in Morocco, swam in (freezing!) thinking seriously about next was visiting with her family from whole terrorism thing than people Lake Geneva, was proposed to steps. Throughout my travels I had Saudi Arabia. Shortly thereafter, in the United States. I began my by a beautiful Eastern European stayed in telephone contact with as Karachi reeled in the aftermath journey in London without im- blonde (followed by a price tag of some Pepsi folks in Dubai. I had of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, migration issues and criss-crossed 35 euros), toured the ruins of Rome asked them if they had any roles Leena and I got engaged. In Febru-

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Michelle Oh White & Case in November as an 06 17 John St., Apt. 2D associate. For the month of March, New York, NY 10038 Joe Lemonik’s artwork hung in 06 Gimme!Coffee on Mott Street on [email protected] the Lower East Side. The work Classmates, thanks as always for was all made with office supplies the interesting updates. It’s so during his employment at NERA, exciting to hear about your accom- where he worked with Stephanie plishments, travels and ongoing Willis. More of Joe’s art work is endeavors. We’re lucky to have at www.JoeLemonik.com. Tanya a class whose gifts span the full Khan will graduate from Duke spectrum. Medical School this May and will I thought I’d start this issue’s complete her ophthalmology column off with a happy update of residency at LSU-Ochsner. my own: Michelle Oh got engaged Schuyler Brown writes, “I’ll be in March to Alan C. Sing ’05 Dart- heading back uptown for business mouth and is planning a winter school at Columbia with Dodson wedding. Worthington and Nathaniel Joe Winters ’06 married Angela Suber in Jacksonville, Fla., on December Colleen Taylor was married in Greenberg. Hope to see some 19. Fellow alumni Mike McAndrew ’06 (top row, third from right), Wade September to Brett Slatkin ’05E. familiar faces around campus! Fletcher ’05 (top row, first from right), Alex Ehrhart ’06 (middle row, Their wedding was in Santa Bar­- Victoria Baranetsky is tirelessly third from right) and Shay Murphy ’06 (middle row, second from right) bara, Calif., and though the guest trying to amuse her CC friends with were groomsmen. Not pictured are Matt Kaplan ’06, Brooks Hansen ’05, list was small (fewer than 40 peo- her Class Notes entries. Haiku style: Brandon Bowser ’06, Colby Blitz ’06E, Arun Ramachandran ’06E and Jeff ple), it included a lot of Columbia We is 12 percent. Defining it all the Coles ’06. grads: Katie Fernandez, Shayne time. We cause waves. Oh my! PHOTO: Kara Pennington Adler, Dana Gold, Naomi Kort, Jeff Farrell, Max DiLallo, Jason Fernandes ’05 and Michael Krul- David D. Chait ary 2008, Leena went back to Saudi many of you can make it! It will wich ’05. The newlyweds live in 1255 New Hampshire Ave. Arabia, and I finally returned to be held Thursday, June 3–Sunday, San Francisco, where Colleen has 07 N.W., Apt. 815 the U.S. However, later that month, June 6. There will be tons of events been since graduation. 07 Washington, DC 20036 I got confirmation from the Dubai all weekend, including dinners; I had the opportunity to attend [email protected] Pepsi team that they had a role for lunches; cultural events; and the the John Jay Awards Dinner on me, and by mid-March, I packed Saturday wine tasting, class dinner March 3 and was pleased to see I hope that everyone is having an up once more and left for Dubai. and dancing on Low Plaza. numerous classmates in atten- enjoyable spring with some nice “Dubai has turned out to be an If you haven’t registered, do dance, including but not limited summer plans on the horizon. It’s incredible place. One of the initial so now: http://reunion.college. to Zachery Bendiner, Michael hard to believe it’s been three years perks also was the fact that Leena columbia.edu. Brown, Schuyler Brown, Theo- since our graduation, but members was only an hour’s flight away in Here are some updates from dore Orsher and Jonathan Lung of our class are up to some amaz- Saudi Arabia. She and I got legally your classmates. ’06E. ing things. married in June 2008, but we had W. Garner Robinson celebrated Hannah Herchenbach writes, Colleen Darnall has spent her the public ceremony in December the Saints’ Super Bowl victory on “After graduating from Columbia, time since graduation as a music 2008. Leena then joined me in Bourbon Street in his native New I left for New Zealand with aspira- assistant and copyist on such Dubai. Orleans. “WHO DAT!” he writes. tions of being a freelance writer. Broadway productions as In the “On December 9, 2009, Leena and Jeremiah Boswell’s writing on Within three months, I took over Heights, 9 to 5, The Little Mermaid I welcomed our son, Zayan Rafiq, international basketball has been Pulp, the biggest pop culture maga- and Everyday Rapture. Her current into our family. He’s truly been a published in Hoops Addict. He has zine in the country. Within a year, project is the Green Day musical, ‘bundle of joy’ and has changed written about Derrick Alston, a I decided that I didn’t want to do American Idiot, with Tony Award- both our lives for the better. In Janu- former NBA pro who has flour- that, as I didn’t have time to write winning orchestrator Tom Kitt ’96. ary of this year, I achieved a per- ished in Europe the past 12 years. my own stuff. So I set up a contract Colleen also is a composer and sonal breakthrough when I finished He also has written about Stephon editing company instead and have member of the BMI Lehman Engel the 10k in the Dubai Marathon in Marbury’s arrival in the Chinese spent the last three years perfecting Musical Theatre Workshop. less than one hour. Never before did Basketball Association. my first novel, about a girl who Alan Weeth writes, “[I recently] I think I could walk more than five Benjamin Blaise was born runs away from America to live quit my job and moved to Yojakar- kilometers at one stretch, let alone January 27 to Martin and Bridget with a tribe of kids she met on a ta, a town in Indonesia about nine run 10! I think part of the motiva- (Geibel) Stefanski. The Stefanskis beach. I now live in Wellington and hours from Jakarta. I’m just travel- tion came from becoming a father were visited by KwiiNa Kim ’05 any Columbia kid who ever makes ing around Indo and discovering and wanting to prove to myself that Barnard, Lindsey May ’05E and it down here is forever welcome in what life is really all about.” I was still young!” Alexandra Seggerman. Congrats! my little villa on a hill overlooking Eric Lopata ’08, Jeffrey Feder Caitlin Verrilli writes: “I live the twinkling night city.” ’07E, ’08E, Aryeh Falk and Eric in Bonn, Germany, at the head- Evan Sanchez recently returned Bondarsky recently had a long, REUNION JUNE 3–JUNE 6 quarters of a consulting company from a five-month journey interesting conversation about the Alumni Office Contacts where I’ve worked for a few years. through South America with his Class Notes section in CCT. It felt Alumni Affairs Mia Gonsalves Wright I’m thoroughly enjoying ‘Study girlfriend, which included stops like old times when you can have [email protected] Abroad II,’ this time with a little in Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and an intellectually stimulating con- 212-851-7977 more money in my pocket!” Uruguay. He’s looking forward to versation about almost anything! It Development Amanda Kessler Nicole Callahan will be return- the next big thing when he moves also is so great to see what everyone [email protected] ing to Columbia in the fall to begin back to Brooklyn this summer. is doing with their lives. We were all 212-851-7883 a doctoral program in English Sarah Maslin Nir ’08 is a freelance very proud. Peter Kang education at Teachers College. writer for The New York Times. She Hagar ElBishlawi received her 205 15th St., Apt. 5 In February, Peter Lerman, who recently returned from the wild master’s in environmental engineer- 05 Brooklyn, NY 11215 wrote music and lyrics for the Alaskan bush on assignment. Marc ing from Princeton in May 2009. 05 Varsity Show, won one of the 2010 Pimentel traveled to Beijing to Nishant Dixit shares some excit- [email protected] Jonathan Larson Grants for musi- study acupuncture and traditional ing news. “I am moving to Mumbai Excited for the upcoming five-year cal theater composing and lyric Chinese medicine for a month. to work in international develop- Alumni Reunion Weekend? Hope writing. Congrats! Dennis Schmelzer joined ment for an NGO, TechnoServe. I

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will be managing a rural entre- Columbia students for internships,” preneurship program that assists says Eric. people with developing businesses Calvin Sun has been doing throughout India. I also will be public speaking around the country working with the Tibetan Govern- including at Penn, Columbia, the 5 ment in Exile to promote economic College Network (Smith, Amherst, development in Dharamsala and UMass, Hampshire and Mt. Holy- other refugee areas.” oke), Rutgers, Florida and Virginia. Congratulations Nishant! “I also have been giving keynote Sean Colenso-Semple recently addresses, including one on student moved to Melbourne, Australia, leadership at the University of Flor- where is he is working for McKin- ida (www.ecaasu.org/site/?p=676) sey. Avi Zvi Zenilman is happily and one on global justice and social self-employed and can be seen on issues at the University of Virginia a semi-regular basis wandering the in April (www.student.virginia. halls of Lerner. edu/pursuit). I’ll be starting medi- In addition to their real jobs, cal school in the fall, haven’t picked A large crowd of Philolexians joined Michelle Pentecost ’07 to celebrate Pierce Rowe, Caryn Epstein, a place yet though, but it’ll be in the her wedding to high school sweetheart Robert Smith in Louisiana on Alex Baumel, Leah Sandals and NYC area or at Yale.” July 18. In attendance were (left to right) Leo Gertsenshteyn ’06E, El- Christian Capasso are partners in liot Kaplan ’06E, Jonathan Treitel ’05, Stephanie Feldman ’05 Barnard, a start-up beef jerky company, led Edward Rueda ’05, the bride, Everett Patterson ’06, Tamar Zeffren ’06 by president and CEO Josh Kace. Alidad Damooei Barnard, Neil Flanagan ’08, Caitlin Campbell ’07, Anna Sproul ’07, Eric SlantShack Jerky, which special- c/o CCT 09 LeSueur ’06 and Andrew Liebowitz ’06. izes in bespoke jerky, was recently Columbia Alumni Center PHOTO: Courtesy of Anna Sproul ’07 featured in New York Magazine 09 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 and the New York Post. Check it New York, NY 10025 out (and place an order!) at www. [email protected] organization go toward providing on a project related to developing slantshackjerky.com. child-friendly spaces, distributing the Kingdom’s national competi- Brooklyn Smith has been living May is finally here, and this means food, medicine and family survival tiveness. Josh recently attended the in Holland for the past year, work- that we are officially at the one-year kits as well as contributing to long- inaugural Saudi Columbia Alumni ing on her family’s farm and sell- mark of life after Columbia College. term development programs. Ga- Dinner on the Red Sea in Jeddah, ing organic produce at a local food Most of us have finally adjusted to brielle would greatly appreciate it Saudi Arabia. He and more than 20 market. Life is beautiful! This fall, the pressures and rhythm of the real if you would contribute and spread alums, including an ’85 Business she will move to Ethiopia to study world. During the last year, mem- the world about this cause. To do alumnus, reminisced about College art at Addis Ababa University. She bers of our class have continued to any of those, please visit http:// Walk, New York and snowstorms. urges classmates to “shirk conven- amaze with their exciting adven- twv.convio.net/site/TR/Team Oriana Isaacson lives in Seattle, tionalism and chase dreams!” tures and significant accomplish- WorldVision/General?px=104884 right under the Space Needle, with Thank you again for all of your ments. One can only imagine what 1&pg=personal&fr_id=1160. Also, her cat, Lucy. She works in admis- submissions! the coming years will bring, given feel free to e-mail her at gabrielle.a@ sions at The Bush School, a private what we have already done in our gmail.com if you have questions or K–12 school in the city. Last month, first year out of college. would like more information about Dean Li and Sara Ovadia visited Neda Navab On February 27, Justin Fiske other initiatives. her from California. That weekend 53 Saratoga Dr. ’08 proposed to Mallory Carr. Philippe Fossaert has moved was Tristan Naumann ’09E’s birth- 08 Jericho, NY 11753 Mallory was then surprised when back to Bogota, Colombia. He is a day. Tristan, Sara, Boris Mindzak 08 she found out that several of her business analyst for a Dutch chain ’09E and Oriana had a mini-John [email protected] friends had flown out from around of supermarkets with a presence in Jay 9 reunion. Max Czapanskiy, Hi Class of ’08, the country to congratulate her in 10 Colombian cities. Philippe finds Kim Manis ’09E and Valerie Smith Happy spring! Below are up- Los Angeles. I join all of CC ’09 in the work to be interesting and also attended. dates from members of our class. congratulating them on the good varied. As a former member of the Oriana is happy to report that Enjoy! news! Columbia golf team, Philippe likes she recently planned a massive Aaron Tolkin and Dena Nach- Congratulations also are in to play a round of golf as often as interview day for applicants to man ’09 Barnard got engaged on order for Maxime Glass. Maxime possible to maintain his level. the Class of 2014. Talking to them a cruise over New Year’s! Aaron is graduating this May from the Rebecca Feinberg and Jordan about NYC made her miss the city, lives in Miami and is a revenue Harvard Graduate School of Edu- Keenan embarked upon “The Best but she still thinks Seattle is pretty management analyst for Royal cation with a master’s in educa- Internship Ever” with Professor awesome, too! Caribbean Cruise Lines. “I miss the tion. She will return to New York Paige West in Papua New Guinea. Northeast and Columbia, but I am City, where she will teach second They put their anthropology skills living my dream by working for a grade at the Dalton School. to work with Ailan Awareness, a Julia Feldberg cruise line,” Aaron says. “Miami is Gabrielle Apollon was in Haiti grassroots marine conservation 10 c/o CCT not bad, but it is no Northeast. Of during the earthquake on January NGO that had them grant-writing, Columbia Alumni Center course, I encourage people to get 12 with a research group from SIPA, visiting tiny island villages to set up 10 622. W. 113th. St., MC 4530 in touch with me while they are where she is studying, and has writ- community-based conservation New York, NY 10025 vacationing in sunny Florida.” ten an account of her experience at plans and riding through the jungle [email protected] Eric Heinbockel, Nick LaCava www.ayitimwen.blogspot.com. She in the back of a pickup truck. They ’09 and a one-semester Columbia and her family were not injured, but learned to speak Papua New Guinea Hello, and congratulations to all of exchange student, Fabian Kaempfer to assist those who were, she led a Pidgin, tried chewing betel nut my graduating classmates! I look of European Business School ’09, team and ran in World Vision’s 5k and then proceeded to Australia to forward to serving as the Class started their own mass customiza- Run for Haiti on April 3. Gabrielle muck around for a couple months, Notes scribe for the Class of 2010. tion chocolate company, Choc- is raising money for World Vision surfing, hiking and (for a bit) living I hope all of you find time to keep omize. Users can create their own because not only does World Vision out of a much-beloved van. in touch and share your exciting chocolate bars on www.chocomize. have a tremendous presence in As a consultant with Monitor news with me, whether you move com. The company was founded current humanitarian relief efforts Group’s Middle East office, Josh to a different city, switch jobs or get in August just outside of Philadel- in Haiti but it also has worked in Mathew anxiously awaits the ru- a pet snail! phia and has already really taken Haiti for more than 30 years and mored launch of a Shake Shack in It feels like just yesterday that off. “We are expanding rapidly is committed to Haiti’s long-term Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he’s we moved into our freshman and even currently interviewing development. Funds raised by the been staffed for the past six months dormitories, eager and anxious to

may/june 2010 77 class notes columbia college today begin the Core, make new friends the mystery of the attack before Thailand with Columbia friends & Co. Middle East, but will first and explore New York City. Now, the robots kill everyone. Eventu- for a week before flying back to spend the summer studying Arabic it’s time to clear our minds of ally, Michael plans to move to Los New York. He starts training in at the Columbia University Middle phrases like “the homestretch” and Angeles to work for a studio. mid-July at Goldman Sachs and East Research Center in Amman, the “final countdown” and turn Congratulations to Zeena Audi, hopes to live in either TriBeCa or Jordan, and then traveling to our attention to the exciting plans who will be attending P&S in Au- the Financial District. Shanghai to reconnect with her for this summer and next year. gust after a summer of relaxation Matthew Harold writes, “Next roots and roam the World Expo. Some of our classmates will be and traveling with friends and year I’ll be working at Morgan Adam Valen Levinson also will staying in New York City. Joe Saia family. At the moment, she thinks Stanley in the Investment Banking be studying Arabic, but he will at- writes, “Next year, I’ll be an associ- she might like to pursue a career in Division, where I’ll be in the Fi- tend Middlebury’s Intensive Sum- ate consultant at Rosetta Marketing pediatrics. nancial Institutions Group. Before I mer Arabic Program in Oakland, Group, a consulting firm in TriBe- Sophie Reiser made the tough officially sell my soul, my summer Calif. In August, Adam will move Ca that specializes in interactive decision to leave Columbia early is going to consist of moving into to Abu Dhabi to be a program and online marketing solutions. I’ll to pursue a career as a profes- a new apartment somewhere in coordinator for NYU Abu Dhabi be living in downtown Manhattan sional soccer player after getting Manhattan with Veronica Colon during its inaugural year. He hopes and putting my hard-earned Core drafted by the Chicago Red Stars and Arianna Bastianini and travel- to rent a camel. knowledge to good use in business in January. Although she has had ing around Europe for a month.” Charlotte Freinberg also will be meetings, cocktail parties and a difficult time battling injuries, Emily Lampert will be just a overseas, moving back to London trendy electro-trance clubs. In a she hopes to make her mark in train ride away in New Haven, in May to work at a television pro- few years, I’ll be looking to attend women’s professional soccer dur- Conn., where she will join Teach duction company in the comedy/ business school.” ing the next few years. Look for her For America and help close the entertainment department. She Michael Molina plans to look in the news (and in future Class largest achievement gap in the would like to make shows that are for a job at a production company Notes)! country. Emily will be teaching both comedic and entertaining. in NYC while working on his robot Traveling through Europe before fifth- and sixth-grade reading at an I will stay in New York City next screenplay, A Simple Machine. It is starting work full time is a popular Achievement First charter school. year to work at Time in its Corpo- a parody movie in which artificial choice for many. After graduation, Some of our classmates will be rate Strategy Group. intelligence turns to violent intel- Daniel Kanak will backpack moving abroad. Sue Yang will Please do not hesitate to e-mail ligence as robots take over a small through Eastern Europe for three relocate from the Midwest to the me at any time with updates, and town in Arizona, and a lieutenant weeks, starting in Poland and also Middle East, from Detroit to Dubai. have a wonderful summer! and single father will have to solve going to the Full Moon party in She will be working for McKinsey

Long Island. I do not believe that poetry, Frederick W. Dupee. Is this who make a big contribution to the Letters she was ever a patient in an asy- correct? Democratic Party. lum in the Bronx. J. Peter Rosenfeld ’59 Roman Kernitsky ’62 (Continued from page 2) Secondly, “going insane” is not Ev a n s t o n , Ill . Co l t s Ne c k , N.J. a good way to describe what she without any editorial comment, the and her family went through. Al- [Editor’s note: Indeed, it is former The decision to try 9-11 terrorists in climate change denier’s letter. The though Allen thought of her condi- professor Dupee in the photo.] New York City is stupid — there is writer made numerous statements of tion in spiritual rather than medi- no other word. As anyone with a “fact” that are demonstrably false. cal terms, I think it would be fair to Thank you for choosing to publish decent education knows, the deci- For a statement of the urgency call it a severe and complex mental that excerpt of Fred Kaplan’s book sion is so obviously stupid on so of action to slow climate change, illness that worsened over time. on 1959. It enlightened for me the many levels; there can be no justifi- read this letter from The National My interest in the Ginsbergs goes source for the writing of Allen Gins- cation for it. Oh yes, one can manu- Academies of Sciences, United States back to my connection with Allen’s berg ’48 and Jack Kerouac ’44. But it facture sentences that resemble of America, and other major coun- father, Louis, who was my English also reminded me of one of the great reasons, but they are mere sophis- tries: www.nationalacademies.org/ teacher in 1951–52 at Central H.S. in characteristics of Columbia: allow- tications; they neither explain the includes/G8+5energy-climate09.pdf. Paterson, N.J. In early spring 1954, ing talented young men who were decision nor make it right. Sam Silvers ’82, ’85L he stopped me in the hall and asked expelled or suspended for rowdy Because they are graduates, New York City if I had plans for college. He told me misbehavior, like Ginsberg and Columbia publications have, as a son had gone to Columbia “and Benjamin Jealous ’94, to return to the did CCT in November/December, 1959 enjoyed it very much.” Since this College and mature into useful citi- ostentatiously displayed Attorney Fred Kaplan makes a compelling was a life-changing conversation for zens and leaders in their fields. General Holder, who claims respon- case for his main thesis (“1959: The me, I remember his exact words. He Sol Fisher ’36, ’38L sibility for the decision, and Presi- Year Everything Changed,” March/ thought I would “enjoy” Columbia, Pl e a s a n t Hi ll , Ca l i f . dent Obama, who from a constitu- April), but I’d like to comment on too. Obviously, if I had not listened tional standpoint could and should his assertion that Allen Ginsberg to his advice, you would not be The Rule of Law only have made it. However, such ’48’s mother, “who had gone insane hearing from me now. Only later, The article on Eric H. Holder Jr. ’73, boldly public correlations between when he was in high school, lived when I became aware of “Howl,” 76L (November/December) shows Columbia and indefensibly stupid in an asylum up in the Bronx.” did I connect a kind teacher with his what a hypocrite he is. Mr. Holder decision makers lead me, with more First of all, Naomi Ginsberg be- celebrated son. states that the “whole idea of social than one degree from Columbia, gan having psychotic episodes be- David Brown ’58 segregation is disturbing.” Yet the to duck for cover. Friends who are fore Allen was born. When she got Sh e l b u r n e , Vt. article states that he was “active in decently educated otherwise won- worse, she was sent to the Bloom- a campaign to establish a lounge der out loud whether Columbia’s ingdale Asylum in White Plains, In the March/April issue of CCT, in Hartley Hall where black stu- reputation has outlived its quality. N.Y. (This is the same asylum that there was a wonderful digest of dents could gather” while he was While I imagine Columbia will had occupied land on Morningside Fred Kaplan’s book about the Beat an undergraduate. If he is against continue to trade on its connection Heights until Columbia bought it Generation writers. It featured a social segregation, then why was he to political power, I wish the Col- in 1892.) When the family could photo from a poetry reading (of his promoting it as an undergraduate? lege and University would be more no longer afford that private care, “Howl”) by Allen Ginsberg ’48 in Furthermore , he states he wants to discriminating and circumspect she was moved to the Greystone 1959. In this photo, an unidentified reestablish the “rule of law,” yet he with its support. Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey. man was seated behind Ginsberg. was instrumental in obtaining the Daniel F. Johnson ’61, ’62 GSAS, She was in and out of state care for Both Marty Janis ’59 and I believe pardon of Marc Rich, the fugitive ’66 GSAS the rest of her life, dying in 1956 in this gentleman to be our erstwhile, billionaire. It appears that the rule of Ch a r l o t t e , N.C. the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center on wonderful professor of modern law does not apply to lawbreakers

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A l u m n i Co r n e r Columbia Blue and the Four-Minute Mile

B y Li a m Bo y l a n -Pe t t ’08

yle Merber ’12 and I never ran together at Columbia. He ing section were screaming wildly and pounding their fists on the arrived at 116th and Broadway just as I was leaving for track, their intensity picking up to match the intensity of the race. grad school at Georgetown. “Two fifty-six, fifty-seven” — I stepped off the track as a race K We had met when he was in high school, and he official screamed the time — “fifty-eight, fifty nine … .” His voice seemed like a good enough guy. He knew about me as a runner trailed off as I set up to watch the end of the race unfold. By now and wanted to know everything there was to know about why the Columbia cheering section was in a frenzy as Kyle went by I was pretty good. I tried to give him tips about succeeding as a in a blur, his long hair barely contained by his white headband. runner at Columbia, and via Facebook we became friends. I stood up on the banked curve and found myself wringing my My first year out of Columbia went extremely well in terms of hands and getting wrapped up in the screaming and stomping. running. While I couldn’t complain about my four years in Manhat- A group of five runners came up the homestretch, and I franti- tan, I really started to mature as an athlete in the District of Colum- cally watched as Kyle took the lead from a Syracuse runner as the bia. On January 31, 2009, I ran a mile in 3 minutes 59.40 seconds, bell that signals the last lap rang out loudly. becoming the 315th American to break the four-minute barrier. “Go! Go! GO!” I yelled at him and spun my pendulum-like Joy, shock, relief and pride were among the emotions I felt as I arm in a circle emphasizing how fast I wanted him to run. crossed the finish line and realized I had done what I had dreamed He floated down the backstretch and began pulling away from about as a seventh-grader, when I first learned what running un- the other runners. Around the turn they started catching up to him, der four minutes meant. It took me 10 years to drop 80 seconds off but with only a straightaway to go, he mustered his strength and my time, but the mission was accomplished. powered through the last 50 meters. Even though I was no longer in the There often is an eerie silence right after a mile race that light blue and instead wore a plain black is run around four minutes. Everyone watches a runner singlet, I was the first Columbia runner to cross the finish line, then quickly turns to the clock in hopes break the four-minute barrier. that a “3” will be the first digit in the final time posted. Kyle wanted to be the next. I had no That didn’t happen this time. Kyle crossed the line problem helping as much as I could. with his arms spread wide, certain that he had broken I keep in touch with the Columbia four minutes. He did: 3 minutes, 58.52 seconds of run- coaching staff, especially since my brother, ning led to him being the 343rd American under four. Will ’05, is an assistant, and they asked me He kept on running, too — right into his to pace the mile at Columbia’s Last Chance eagerly waiting cheering section. There Track Meet (an open race, although most he hugged and high-fived anyone who runners were collegians) on March 5. would have him. So I hopped on the Amtrak to New York, I stood by the finish line and took it all grabbed a 1 train to 116th, walked along (Above) Liam Boylan- in. Everyone I looked at, Columbia students College Walk to Amsterdam Avenue and Pett ’08 crosses the and alumni alike, was smiling. boarded a bus that took me to the Armory finish line at the Penn For me, it was different now, but still Relays. (Right) Boylan- on West 168th Street. Pett and Kyle Merber much the same. There was still a love for I was there to pace the first 1,200 me- ’12 after Merber’s anyone who donned the light blue and ran ters of the 1,609-meter race. The point of sub–four-minute mile. wildly around the oval. I once was the one a pacer, commonly known in the running with the “C” on my chest celebrating on the world as a rabbit, is to do the work at the beginning of a race to track; it was just as much fun to witness Kyle dancing like a child on make sure the tempo is fast enough. It is easier to run behind some- the track, his joy contagious. one than in the lead, so my goal was to be in front of Kyle and the He eventually found his way over to me and gripped me in other racers to make sure that they saw 2 minutes and 58 seconds a bear hug. “Thank you, man,” he said. “I love this.” We pushed when they had 400 meters to go. At that point, I would step off away from our hug and he went back to his interviews over the the track and hope that Kyle could maintain the pace in the final loudspeaker and celebrations with his teammates and family. quarter-mile. It felt odd for me to enter a race knowing that I wasn’t Only twice has a Columbia Lion laced up his track spikes, toed going to finish it, but I had already broken four and I thought it was the starting line and proceeded to run a mile in under four minutes. time for a guy in Columbia blue to do it. I did it once. I was extremely proud to witness, and contribute On an outdoor track, there are four laps to a mile. At the in- to, the other. door Armory, you have to make your way around the banked, 200-meter oval a hair over eight laps. I was in charge of leading To see a video of Merber’s race, go to www.college.columbia.edu/cct. six of those laps, and I made sure to do exactly that. The excitement grew every time I ran around the first turn, and Liam Boylan-Pett ’08, a journalism graduate student in Washington, the noise got louder with each lap. Those in the Columbia cheer- D.C., still is chasing his running dreams.

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Edward Koren. 24-Hour Banking, 1990. Courtesy the artist and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. An extensive exhibition of cartoons by Edward Koren ‘57 is being shown through Saturday, June 12, at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery on campus. For more, see page 16.